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Wherever the Kieifer Hybrid has been exhibited it has 

 taken the first prize as the best blight-proof hybrid seed- 

 ling, and in the markets it always commands a higher 

 price than any others. The fruit is large, measuring from 

 ten to twelve inches around ; is double turbinate in shape, 

 pointed at both ends; flesh white, and remarkably firm 

 until it ripens, then it is juicy, rich, with a pleasant vinous 

 flavor, .and of best quality. 



It is a splendid keeper, and can be shipped to markets 

 a month or so distant, arriving in better order than when 

 it started, ripening on the way. It does not rot until very 

 ripe, and remains sound at the core to the very last. The 

 fruit is a rich yellow, tinged with red, and very attractive. 

 The tree is very ornamental, an early bearer, commencing 

 to fruit at two or three years, and is enormously productive 

 as it grows older. It is also a very strong grower ; young 

 trees planted in the spring often making a growth during 

 the summer of four to five feet. It grows well in any ordi- 

 nary soil, whether heavy clay or light sand, but does its 

 best on the latter, hence is peculiarly adapted to Florida. 

 The fruit commences to ripen in July, and continues 

 through November. 



At the International Exhibition in Philadelphia, in 

 1876, the Centennial Commission gave to P. Kieffer a 

 prize medal and certificate of award, for "originating a 

 hybrid pear of remarkable excellence, between the pear 

 of culture and a Chinese sand pear, giving promise of a 

 new race of pears of great excellence." 



GARBER'S HYBRID. 



This is the best of many seedlings of the Chinese sand 

 pear, raised by Mr. J. B. Garber, of Pennsylvania. The 

 tree is fine, healthy, and vigorous, like all that spring from 

 this hardy source. The fruit is of good size, measuring 



