THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 211 
REEDER 
1. 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 Rhéder. 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 Seckel; 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 
1871 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 22 in. long, 12 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 13 in. across, in dense clusters, average 9 buds in a cluster; pedicels 
2 in. long, slender. 
Fruit ripe in October and November; small, 12 in. long, 1 in. wide, globular-obtuse- 
pyriform, slightly ribbed and irregular; stem 13 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, 
