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REEDER 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 40. 1883. 2. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:260. 1903. 

 Reeder's Seedling. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 150. 1867. 



Doctor Reeder. 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 739, fig. 1869. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 20. 1871. 

 Docteur Rheder. 6. Rev. Hort. 87. 1889. 



Reeder is another of the pears too good to discard, and not quite good 

 enough to give an ardent recommendation. In quality, the fruits rank 

 but little below those of Secke 1 ; are about the same size as grown under 

 average conditions; but are even duller and less attractive in color than 

 the modest fruits of Seckel, which is probably one of its parents. The 

 fruits have a place in the home and markets as a pear to follow Seckel, 

 the crop coming in season just after that of Seckel passes out. The trees 

 do poorly in the nursery, as they make but a short, slender growth 

 until well established in the orchard, after which they become of medium 

 size but very vigorous. The branches droop as do those of Winter Nelis, 

 the other parent, although not so markedly. The variety is as nearly 

 blight-proof as either of its parents. 



Reeder is a seedling raised about 1855 by Dr. Henry Reeder, Varick, 

 New York, from seed of Winter Nelis. The parent tree stood near a Seckel 

 and it is considered that Reeder is a cross between the two varieties. The 

 American Pomological Society added the variety to its fruit-catalog in 

 1 87 1 under the name Doctor Reeder, but in 1883 changed the name to 

 Reeder. 



Tree medium in size, vigorous, spreading, drooping, open-topped, productive ; branches 

 zigzag, reddish-brown partly overspread with gray scarf-skin, sprinkled with numerous 

 lenticels; branchlets slender, willowy, long, reddish-brown mingled with gray, the new 

 growth reddish-green, dull, smooth, glabrous except near the tips of the new growth, with 

 few very small, inconspicuous lenticels. 



Leaf -buds small, short, pointed, appressed. Leaves 2y in. long, ij in. wide, leathery; 

 apex taper-pointed; margin crenate to nearly entire; petiole 2 in. long, tinged with red; 

 stipules few, very small, reddish-green. Flower-buds small, short, conical, free, singly 

 on short spurs; flowers ij in. across, in dense clusters, average 9 buds in a cluster; pedicels 

 f in. long, slender. 



Fruit ripe in October and November; small, if in. long, if in. wide, globular-obtuse- 

 pyriform, slightly ribbed and irregular; stem ij in. long, slender, curved; cavity a very 

 small depression in which is inserted the base of the stem, symmetrical; calyx large, open; 

 lobes separated at the base, long, narrow, reflexed, acuminate; basin very shallow and 

 narrow, smooth; skin thick, smooth, tender; color dull greenish-yellow, mottled and streaked 

 with russet, blushed faintly on the exposed cheek with brownish-red; dots few, small, 



