BISKS OF TRANSPORTATION ASSUMED. 
EIEFFES'S HYBRID PEAK. 
As we have been largely instrumental in the introduction of this valuable 
pear, we take pride in speaking of tlie following points in its favor, althougli the 
attached statements and testimonials leave but little to he said. 
FIRST. — The tree is strictly ornamental in every respect, and as worthy 
of a place on the lawn as in the orchard. 
SECOND. — In rapid growth, hardiness and ability to resist disease it appears 
to be equal to its parent, the Sand Pear. 
THIRD. — The fruit is large, handsome, keeps well and commands the very 
highest prices in the market. In Philadelphia last year it wholesaled at $.5.00 
per bushel, and retailed from 10 to 25 cents each. 
FOURTH — Forearly bearing and productiveness we know of no pear to com- 
pare with it. Standard trees transplanted when one year old from the bud come 
Into bearing the second, and dwarfs the first season after transplanting. Many 
ofthe two year old trees in the nursery rows show fine specimens of fruit. In 
orchard culture paying crops may be confidently looked for the third season after 
transplanting, and each and every year thereafter. 
FIFTH. — For the past three years we have controlled the entire stock of. 
buds and scions produced by the original tree. These buds, cut from bearing 
trees, we have worked on selected seedlings, and have spared no pains or expense 
to produce trees perfect in every respect. See below Mr. Maxwell's remarks 
before the American Pomological Seciety. Oo to fiead-quarters for the purest 
and best. 
IN CONCLUSION:— The more we see of the habit of the tree and of the 
fruit, the higher is our opinion of the Kieffer. It is one of those things that if 
a man plants a dozen trees this year, the chances are that three years hence he 
will have one regret, viz: that he did not plant one hundred instead of one dozen. 
Give your order for KlefTcr's to one of our agents, and you can insure the delivery 
of the trees in good order, and true to name. 
AS AN ©ENAMENTAI/ TKBE. 
Thomas Meehan says: "Ima^;ine the old Chinese Sand Pear tree with its 
vigorous growth and ornamental foliage, loaded with pears as beautiful as the 
finest Flemish Beauties, and you can form some faint idea of the wonderful ap- 
pearance of this tree." 
From Report of the Proceedings of the American Pomological Sociefys' Meeting, at Boston, Sept., 1881. 
"It has the habit of holding its leaves later in the fall than any other variety, 
and the frost changes the color to a glossy purple, making the foliage still more 
ornamental." 
T. C. Maxwell, of Geneva, said: "The gentlemen have probably all seen 
the trees that the Messks. Ch.\sb have on exhibition. They arc very handsome 
. trees, but they arc no handsomer than the rows they have in their nursery. It 
is the finest growing tree I ever saw, healthy and thrifty from one end of th« row 
to the other; just as handsome as can be." 
