1914 



FRUITS OF ONTARIO. 



167 



KIE'PFER. 



There is perhaps no pear about 

 which a greater diversity of opinion 

 exists; some fruit men condemning 

 it because of its lack of quality, and 

 others insisting that its beauty of 

 appearance, its enormous produc- 

 tiveness, and its wonderful health 

 and vigor of tree make it a pro- 

 fitable market variety, and that 

 when properly grown and ripened 

 it is quite a desirable kind, es- 

 pecially for cooking. Certainly 

 the tree surpasses every variety in 

 our collection for productiveness 

 and vigor of growth; while the 

 fruit is always uniformly perfect 

 in form, free from blemishes, and, 

 when the tree is cultivated and 

 manured, large in size. 



ORIGIN: by Peter Kieffer, Rox- 

 bury, Pa., a seedling of Chinese 

 Sand pear. 



KIEFFEU. 



TREE: wonderfully vigorous and 

 healthy; an early and extraordin- 

 ary bearer. 



FRUIT: medium to large; form, 

 ovate, tapering at both ends, widest 

 at middle, and narrowest towards 

 stem; skin, light golden yellow^ 

 with bright cheek, and very 

 numerous brown russet dots; stalk, 

 one inch long, fairly stout, in a 

 one-sided cavity; calyx, half open, 

 in a medium sized irregular basin. 



FLESH: yellowish white; texture, 

 half tender, half melting, not very 

 fine, juicy; flavor, moderately 

 sweet, poor. 



QUALITY: dessert, very poor; for 

 cooking, good; valuable for can- 

 ning. 



VALUE: second class for all mar- 

 kets. This variety must be planted 

 on good soils and highly cultivated 

 and fertilized. 



SEASON: October to January. 



ADAPTATION: very general. 



SECTION OF KIEFFER. 



