THE CHASE NURSERIES. 
THE QCAMTY AND BEAHXr OF TEE FKHIT. 
Like most pears, the Kieffer should be gathered when fully grown, and 
ripened in the house. When thus handled the flesh is juicy and enjoyable. It 
never rots at the core. 
While growing, the pear presents rather of a rough pebblad skin, but as it 
ripens this roughness disappears and the. fruit assumes a yellow, waxy color, 
many specimens showing a beautiful blush on the sunny side. It is hard to 
imagine a more beautiful fruit than a basket of well ripened Kieller Pears. 
Kieffer Pear. — "We have had an opportunity, by the kindness of Messrs. 
R. G. Chase & Co., of seeing and testing the quality of this new pear, and with- 
out hesitation pronounce it a very superior variety. Flesh fine grained, juicy, 
sugary and aromatic. In size it is large and of good form. We feel convinced 
that it is a pear that will take the market.'' — American Farmer. 
From the Report of Committee on Fruits on Exiiibition, Pennsylvania Fruit Growers Society's Meeting at 
Gettysburg, January 20t)i, 1881. 
"Your Committee would call especial attention to the quality of the canned 
Kieffer Pears as having a decidedly excellent character, quite rich, juicy, sprightly, 
and exceedingly pleasant." 
"It produces a fruit with the form of the annexed cut, the rich glowing red 
cheek of a first-class Flemish Beauty, the delicious perfumes of the Sand Pear and 
the rich melting flesh of our best garden pears.'' — Gardener's Monthly. 
IS THE KIEFEEE BLIGHT PROOF ? 
We do not base our estimate of the value of this pear on any supposed blight- 
proof quality. Even if it was as subject to blight as the Bartlett, it has come to 
stay, and is bound to stand at the head of the list as a profitable market fruit. 
Our opinion, however, is that it will prove to be nearer blight-proof than any 
other pear now cultivated. 
The old Chinese Sand Pear, as far as we are informed, has universally been 
exempt from fire bhght. 
The Kiefler in its habit resembles its parent, the Sand Pear, and naturally 
the public have concluded that it likewise is blight-proof 
Mr. Edwin Satterthwaite, of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the most ex- 
tensive and most practical pear grower of Eastern Pennsylvania, relates his 
experience as follows: "The blight would take entire rows of certain varieties, 
ruining every tree until it came to a Sand Pear tree, which it would pass un- 
touched, taking the next. Of several hundred varieties of pears in my orchard, 
the Sand Pear was the only variety that had not been afiiicted with blight, until 
the Introduction of the Kieffer, which thus far has fully held its own with the 
Sand Pear." 
From Report of General Fruit Committee of Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society, I88t. 
"Of the seedlings of the Chinese Sand Pear, the Kieffer has fully held its own 
the past year, and so far has proved to be all that was claimed for it, in quality, 
in fruitfulness, in vigor of growth and freedom from disease." 
