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melting; flavor sprightly, acidulous, rich and aromatic. Season, Octo- 

 ber loth to November 1st. Tree a vigorous or free grower and somewhat 

 spiny. 



Col. Wilder — One of Fox's seedlings from California. Large, pyri- 

 form, oblong, inclining to oval ; stalk set without depression ; calyx vi'vy 

 shallow, open or half open; skin yellow, profusely dottpd and marbled 

 with russet; flesh melting, full of juice, sweet; a delicious pear; keeps 

 till March. A fair grower. 



The Idaho Pear — At the annual meeting of the British Columbia 

 Fruit Growers' Association for 1S91, Mr. George W. Beebe read a paper 

 on this recent introduction. As yet not enough is known of the Idaho 

 pear to pass judgment upon its merits, but many nuserymen are off"ering 

 the tree to the public. So far as the tree has been tested in Maine it has 

 proved to be perfectly hardy. From this paper the following is clipped : 



Nearly a quarter of a century ago Mr. and Mrs. MuUkey.then residents 

 of Portland, Oregon, concluded to try their luck in a new country. 

 Amongst other things Mrs. MuUkey took with her four pear seeds that she 

 had taken from a single species of pear, the name of the variety being 

 ijnknown to her. So that the parentage is clouded in mystery. A spot 

 of ground for the future home was selected on a piece of sage brush land, 

 near the banks of the Clearwater river, in what was then known as the 

 Territory of Idaho; here Mrs. Mullkey planted the four pear seeds she 

 had taken with her, but one of the four seeds germinated, whicli grew 

 nicely and in the short space of four years produced its first crop of fruit, 

 and though the parentage of the Idaho is in doubt yet there is no 

 doubt whatever regarding the foster parent, for the new variety immedi- 

 ately took upon itself the name of its guardian and was known as the 

 Mullkey Pear. Some years later the Mullkey place passed into the hands 

 of a Mr. Lindsay who is now the happy possessor, and with it went all 

 interest in the Mullkey Pear, and for a time at least the name was changed 

 and it was known as the Lindsay. 



A few of the admirers of the then Lindsay Pear, in 188G, believing that 

 there was a great future in store fir this new attraction, concluded to 

 organize what is now known as the Idaho Pear Company for the special 

 purpose of distiibuting the stock. The company tiiinking that more than 

 a local name would be desirable re-christened the MuUkey-Lindsaj' to ihe 

 Idaho Pear. 



While it is generally conceded that the Idaho is superior to tlieBartlett 

 in nearly every particular, yet it will hardly be a rival to that variety, as 

 its season of ripening is nearly a month later; it will fill a place of its own. 

 In size it will compare favorably with that standard, the Bartlett. and may 

 be ranked as large, specimens having been grown exceeding a pound in 

 weight. The shape is peculiarly its own, no pear approaching it except 

 a pear of French origin known as the Crassane, and while there is some 

 resemblance in this particular, yet Simon Bros., of Metz, and other 

 authorities on pomological matters, who had tasted the Idaho, have stated 



