Massachusetts 

 agricultural experiment station 



BULLETIN NO. 421 NOVEMBER 1944 



The Identification of Pear Varieties 

 From Non-Bearing Trees 



By Lawrence Southwick, A. P. French, and O. C. Roberts 



The identification of varieties before fruit trees leave the nursery is important 

 if disappointments in the orchard are to be avoided. This bulletin considers 

 the characteristics by which nursery pear trees may be identified and records 

 descriptions of 47 varieties and photographs of 41 varieties. 



MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE 

 AMHERST, MASS. 



