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den a hearty welcome to the luscious fruits of which we often 

 dreamed in those early days. 



On our trees, bushes and vines at Glenview Farm we soon 

 had apples, berries and all other common fruits growing in such 

 profusion that we no longer haunted the hunting grounds of 

 the gnat and mosquito, but we were not completely happy, for 

 in memory we still had one dream that had never come true. 

 We coveted the old pear tree bending beneath it's load of golden 

 fruit that grew close down over the woodshed beside the old 

 home back East. 



Some eighteen years ago when I bought my first order of 

 trees for my orchard, I put down two Keiffer j)ears, I had heard 

 that Keiffers were about the only pears that would do any good 

 at all and I was warned that I probably would never eat a Keiffer 

 from my own trees, but I loved trees, and it was not the only 

 time that I have invested money to experiment with some 

 new thing. 



Now that nurseryman with whom I dealt (peace to his ashes) 

 did something that none of his profession who live in this day 

 would think of doing. Not having a supply of Keiffers, but be- 

 ing long on Keiffer tags, he put a tag of that name on a couple 

 of Bartlett trees and sent them along without explanation. Of 

 course I have since blessed that man for being a deceiver, as the 

 Bartlett is a vastly superior pear. 



I planted those trees in the apple orchard between the trees 

 as I was told they would die in a few years anyway and be out 

 of the way. Then some fellow told me that pears would not 

 bear unless in a sod and as I wanted pears as well as trees, I 

 dug them up and moved them to the lawn right in the midst of 

 a bluegrass plot. They are small trees yet but are thrifty and 

 during the past few years have borne two crops of pears, but 

 the winds blew so hard in those early days and the wood of a 

 pear tree was so supple that they are not very fine specimens. 

 "When those trees did begin to bloom I noticed that the hard 

 south winds often struck them roughly, so I decided that I 

 would set out more trees and put them where a belt of cedars 

 kept off the south winds. 



This time we made a more extensive selection and bought 



