VARIETIES OF PEARS FOR WESTERN NEW YORK 1003 



FIG. 293. PACKI 



OF IRA PEASE, OSWEGO, N. V. 



BUERRE D ANJOU AND SHELDON 



These varieties have four traits in common: .fruit of excellent 

 quality; they sell well when well known; both drop very easily; 

 both refuse to bear every year. 



Many growers have trouble to make Anjou bear at all. It seems 

 to require especially severe pruning. Anjou is comparatively free 

 from blight; Sheldon blights worse than Anjou, but not so 

 badly as Olapp's and Bartlett. Anjou tree is a. large, strong 

 healthy grower, somewhat spreading in habit, while Sheldon grows 

 up tall without spreading so much. 



KIEFFER 



Quality poor for eating out of hand, but excellent for canning 

 or cooking. Many people who have Bartlett and KiefTer prefer the 

 latter for canning. To me they are no more alike after being 

 cooked than peaches and Bartletts. The fruit is large and hand- 

 some if well thinned; the trees are very strong and rapid in 

 growing, and have long, flexible limbs. Kieffer has eight good 



