♦•THE BEST IS TllE CHEAPEST." 
Rancocass, Buklington Co., February 16, 1883. 
Messrs. R. G. Chase & Co. 
Last October we shipped to Worcester, Mass. , four peach baskets of Kieffer's 
Hybrid Pears of our own raising. Tlie fruit was not sorted, but put in just as it 
averaged on the tree. The returns to us, from the commission house, were $3 a 
basket, (|6 a bushel,) less commission. 
We exhibited at the Mount Holly Fair in October a branch that had grown 
from one fruit bud seven large perfect pears, while still another in a space of six 
inches had fourteen pears. 
We will also add that two s'ears ago, a young Clapp's Favorite tree on our 
place blighted badly, we cut the entire tree down, but noticing some signs of life 
near its base, — the ensuing spring we inserted, a few inches above the ground, a 
scion of the Kieffer. From this scion worked on this diseased stock, we have a 
fine vigorous tree that is at this writing 11 feet 6 inches high — giving every assur- 
ance of health, and long life. While our Kieffer's and Early Richmond Cherries 
were in bloom we had a heavy frost that killed the cherry Ulooms but the Kieffer's 
were not injured in the least. Yours truly, 
J. S. HANSELL'S SONS. 
Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J., July 13, 1882. 
Messrs. R. G. Chase & Co. , 
The 113 Kieffer Pear trees I purchased of your agent last spring were the 
finest trees of this age I ever saw. Your truly, 
D. D. DENISE. 
Dover, Delaware, .June 15, 1882. 
Messrs. R. G. Chase & Co. 
Gents: — I am very much pleased with the Kieffer Pears I bought of you, they 
look very prosperous and are full of healthy looking pears. If I was in need of 
more trees I should buy'the Keiffer. Yours, &c , 
STEPHEN SLAUGHTER. 
Patterson, Putnam Co., New York, August 18, 1883. 
Messrs! R. G. Chase & Co. 
I set some of your Kiefler's Hyb-id Pear trees last spring, and they blossomed 
t)efore they had been in the ground 30 days. 
KENT HENION. 
Trappe, Montgomery Co., Pa., July 5, 1882. 
I planted two of Chase & Co. 's Kieffer Hybrid Pear trees last spring; one of 
them bears six fine healthy pears. They surpass anything on piy premises. 
H. W. KRATZ. 
New London, Conn. , July 27, 1883. 
R G. Chase & Co. 
My twenty -five Kieffer Pear trees set Inst si)ring are the wonder of all who 
see them. There is no doubt in my mind but wliat the Kielfer is the coming pear 
■for profit. Youis truly, 
FRANK W. THORP. 
