CHINESE SAND PEARS. 



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garber's hybrid. 



This is the best of many seedlings of the Chinese sand pear, 

 raised by Mr. J. B. Garber, of Pennsylvania. The tree is fine 

 healthy and vigorous, like all that spring from this hardy 

 source. The fruit is of good size, measuring nine inches around, 

 and is much flatter and rounder than the Le Conte, or KiefFer, 

 Its color is greenish-yellow when ripe, with a red blush on one 

 side ; stem is slender, of medium length ; flesh firm, coarse- 

 grained, juicy, with a peculiar, pleasant flavor. It ripens well 

 and evenly, and is of excellent quality and a good shipper. 

 Ripens in September. 



cocklin's sha-lea. 



This pear is the best of two thousand Chinese sand 

 pear seedlings, raised by E. TI. Cocklin, of Pennsylvania, 

 and is not a " sport," but, undoubtedly, an accidental hybrid? 

 between the above pear and a Bartlett tree, which grew near 

 that from which the seeds were obtained. 



The seedling commenced to fruit in 1873, when five years 

 old, and has borne full crops every year since, bearing in 1877 

 eight bushels of fine, marketable pears. 



The fruit is remarkably handsome, smooth, high-colored 

 and beautiful. The skin is yellow, with a bright-red blush on 

 one side ; medium size, measuring ten inches around and twelve 

 inches lengthwise ; stem, long ; calyx, small ; shape, double- 

 turbinate ; flesh, white, crisp, firm, and of good quality. 



This pear, from its handsome shape, fine color, and other 

 good qualities, has already become a prime favorite in the mar- 

 ket, selling readily at $6.00 per bushel, when pears of the older 

 varieties are selling at one-third that price. The fruit begins to 

 ripen in October and continues through November, just when 

 pears are scarce and high. 



These three new-comers in the family of Chinese sand 

 pears, Kieffer's Hybrid, Garber's Hybrid, and Cocklin's Sha- 

 Lea, are destined to secure as fine a foothold in our Southern 

 pear orchards as their mother tree, the original China Sand, or 

 Le Conte pear, has already done. Very few pears grown on any 



