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all that were left and put them away in 
the attic as an experiment. On the roth 
of November we found some of them ripe 
and mellow, and of a very delicious flavor. 
We continued to enjoy them until the 16th 
of December, and I believe we could have 
kept them until Christmas. 
They were the 
Kieffer pears, gathered in October are fully ripened 
and quite luscious by December 
finest pears I have ever eaten anywhere, 
and everyone who has tasted them expressed 
the same opinion. 
The . Kieffer pear has long been valued 
for the size and keeping qualities of the fruit 
and for the blight-resisting quality of the 
trees, but the fruit has been used only for 
cooking. It is of partly Japanese origin, 
and does not need to be wrapped in paper 
when it is put away, like the European pears. 
I wish to emphasize the fact that we 
gathered our pears late in October, after 
they had fully matured. I think they would 
lose in quality if gathered earlier. 
Texas. Anita M. MILLer. 
The Principles of Breeding—Thremmatology 
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