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By MICHELE MAY Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“It looks larger in the summer,” Dr. Robert J. Rodgers said recently of his Flint Hill co-champion pear tree.
“The drought hurt it and I need to fertilize it,” he added. The tree had undergone a tough summer, but it had gone through about 100 others and now it was dropping its leaves to take another winter’s nap.
It didn’t seem too concerned about the drought. It did look plenty big though — even without its leavgs. Flint Hill’s co-champion pear tree (pyrus communis) is listed in the Virginia Forestry Association’s “social register of big trees” — second only in size to the Talleysville pear tree which stands 51 feet tall. The Rappahannock tree is 48 feet tall.
Dr. Rodgers says forestry officials measured the tree a few years back to be sure of its championship stature. It has a “crown spread” of 48 feet — the Talleysville tree’s crown spread is 30 feet. And its circumference at a point 4V-i
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