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nounced quince flavour. Good for canning only. If intended for 
eating, let hang on the tree until almost ripe, and keep a few days 
in a cool dark room and its quality will be fully developed. How- 
ever mature a Kieffer pear may be, it is never good when first 
picked from the tree. Keeps and packs well, and for that reason 
suitable for export. A vigorous as well as an early bearer. If 
allowed to become overloaded or starved, the tree produces small, 
hard fruit of poor flavour. Where planted on rich soil, Kieffer’s 
Hybrid is often a bad cropper, whereas on poorer land where the 
vigour of the tree is checked the bearing improves. Cross fertilisa- 
tion with other varieties blooming concurrently—Howell, Le 
Comte—is beneficial. 
P. Barry.—An American pear of the Winter Nelis class but 
more prolific and better in every way, and a good keeper. Gold 
and russet skin, large, pyriform; very juicy, buttery, excellent 
flavour. 
PackHam’s TriumpH—A New South Wales variety, being 
an improved Bartlett, coming in after that variety is over, a better 
keeper and good earrier; early and prolific bearer. 
Vicar OF WINKFIELD, W. (syn. Napoleon)—A large, fair, and 
handsome French variety, also a first-rate baking pear, but some- 
times too astringent; second-rate for a table pear. Tree grows 
thriftily, with drooping fruit branches, shoots diverging, dark 
olive brown, very productive, hardy; fine size fruit and a profit- 
able market cooking pear. Fruit large and long pyriform; often 
one-sided, pale yellow, fair and smooth, sometimes with brownish 
cheek, and marked with small brown dots; stalk slender, obliquely 
inserted without depression; calyx large, open, set in a basin very 
slightly sunk; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, with good sprightly 
flavour. Not much touched by fusicladiwm nor by the pear mite. 
Suitable for export and stewing. 
LiInconnus (Belgium), W.—A very excellent winter pear. 
Tree hardy, vigorous, upright, very productive. Fruit medium or 
below, broad oval pyriform, light yellow, nettled and patched with 
russet and many russet dots; stalk long, curved, inclined and set 
in a slight depression, sometimes by a lip. Calyx open. Segments 
long and curved. Basin shallow, uneven. Flesh yellowish-white, 
juicy, erisp, very sweet, rich and pleasant. Packs and carries well. 
Winter Neis (syn. Bonne de Malines), W.—Reported liable 
to fusicladium, and an irregular bearer in the coast region of 
California; in other localities a hardy and thrifty tree, rather 
slender and a poor, crooked grower, better grafted on a strong 
growing variety. Difficult to train by pruning alone, but by rub- 
bing off misplaced shoots in the summer and using soft ties and 
