The Nation's Choice for Fine Fruit Trees 
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DOUGLAS (7) An early-bearing, blight-resistant va- 
riety that is hardy and very productive. Healthy young 
trees, which often bear in their third season, produce 
large fruits handsomely covered with a red blush and 
smooth finish. 
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DEVOE (8) A real good variety that is popular and 
profitable, especially in eastern pear-growing areas. 
Devoe most nearly resembles Beurre Bosc in shape. 
It has a rich appearance, large size, and delicious flavor. 
Devoe brings highest prices on fresh markets every- 
where and is excellent canned. 
Fruits are borne in profusion at an early age on very 
vigorous and strong trees. A golden yellow color, high- 
lighted with a pretty red cheek, covers the long fruits 
as harvest time approaches. The flesh is firm, white, 
lacking in grit cells, juicy and sweet. When picked at 
proper stage of maturity, Devoe will keep well in cold 
storage until January and later. Proper picking time is 
about a week later than Bartlett. 
The tree is upright in habit; wood is whippy and 
beafs a good fruit load without breakage. It is very re- 
sistant to pear psylla. 
Devoe is a good Blight-Resistant variety. However, 
Blight Resistance in no way implies that the variety will 
be completely free of fire blight, regardless of the cul- 
tural practices used. Devoe is a fine, vigorous grower and 
needs little fertilization, no constant cultivation or ex- 
tensive pruning for good results. 
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MAGNESS (8a) A very blight-resistant, new variety 
that is picking mature about a week later than Bartlett. 
The fruit is lightly covered with russet, medium in 
size, and generally oval in shape. The flesh is soft, very 
juicy, almost free of grit cells, sweet, highly perfumed, 
and aromatic. The skin is tough and resists insect 
injury. Magness can be held up to three months in cold 
storage and ripen with good quality. 
Trees are very vigorous, spreading, and sometimes 
thorny. They begin bearing at about six years. Magness 
is entirely pollen-sterile and must be pollinated with 
some other variety for good set. Blight resistance is 
extremely high. Cankers of this disease have never 
spread into two-year wood, even when the disease was 
purposely induced. Magness is a good variety for trial 
in all areas, 
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MAX-RED BARTLETT (8b) A bud sport of the well 
known Bartlett variety which matures about one week 
later. The primary difference is the color which Max 
Red assumes. The flesh is white, juicy, of fine texture, 
and good quality. The skin turns a beautiful mahogany 
red at maturity. The trees are similar in growth and 
/productivity to the parent. 
ANJOU— Beu rre d'Anjou (9) A large, fine pear 
that is buttery and melting, with a sprightly flavor. The 
, tree is a fine grower, very productive, and an early 
bearer; one of our best varieties for the home and 
orchard trade. Anjou is partially resistant to fire blight. 
BEURRE BOSC (10) A large pear colored a dark, 
rich yellow overspread with a cinnamon russet. Flesh is 
white, rich, tender, very juicy, and with pleasing aroma. 
Quality is very good, Seckel alone surpassing it as a 
dessert fruit. Trees are slow growers and do not bear at 
an early age, but are large and most productive at 
maturity. They are blight susceptible. 
DUCHESSE D'ANGOULEME (ll) A very large, 
greenish yellow pear that is the favorite of many home 
gardeners. Trees grow equally well on standard or 
dwarf roots, making beautifully symmetrical trees that 
bear early and annual crops of fine fruits. Fruits are 
buttery, melting, and of fine flavor. 
WORDEN SECKEL (12) A Seckel type pear that is 
larger and more handsome than Seckel. Fruits are 
smooth, glossy, uniform, with a good blushed cheek on 
a handsome yellow background. They keep longer than 
Seckel. A hardy tree that bears when young. 
Meckel (12a) A small, rich yellowish brown pear that 
is/ one of the best flavored ones known. Seckel is very 
productive, somewhat blight resistant, and easy to grow, 
it is the all-time favorite for home planting. 
ORIENT (13) A good blight-resistant variety for 
southern growers. The trees are large, vigorous, produc- 
tive, and require little pruning. Fruit is firm, juicy, 
slightly sweet, and nearly round. Its creamy white flesh 
mas good texture and cans well. 
KIEFFER (14) Grown in all sections of the United 
States and Canada, the tree is practically immune to 
blight, very thrifty in growth, and bears consistently 
heavy crops. Fruits are large, colored golden yellow, 
juicy, often gritty, and of poor quality for fresh use. 
They are quite good for culinary purposes, however, and 
keep well into the winter. 
HELPFUL HINT: Most pear varieties are self-unfruit- 
ful and should be interplanted with other varieties. 
Seckel and Bartlett will not cross-pollinate each other 
and where these two varieties are being planted, another 
variety should be added. Duchesse and Flemish Beauty 
are the best pollinating varieties. 
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