I would Google fire-blight and compare photos. This is what it sounds like
to me.

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Mike LaMana, MS, CTE
Consulting Forester & Arborist
Heartwood Consulting Services, LLC
Toms River, NJ
www.HeartwoodConsulting.net


"Linda" wrote in message
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Does anyone else have an ornamental pear that blooms, looks gorgeous and
then the leaves come out and some are dead and branches are dead.......I
wonder if it is some sort of fungus or something. This happens every yr.
After the leaves come out, I get my long pole clippers and prune up the
branches and cut the dead leaves off and it looks great........UNTIL next
yr. when it starts all over again....

Any suggestions on a spray or something?
Thanks..Linda from So. Calif.