12 BULLETIN 822, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
LOUISIANA. 
Distribution. — Pears are grown in Louisiana for home use only. 
Varieties. — Kieffer, Le Conte, Garber, and Koonce are the varie- 
ties planted. 
OKLAHOMA. 
Distribution. — An occasional commercial orchard has been planted 
in the central and eastern portions of Oklahoma, but there are no 
centers where pear growing forms an important community interest. 
Varieties. — The Kieffer is the principal variety grown commer- 
cially, but there are plantings which include the Garber, Bartlett, 
Angouleme (Duchess), and several other sorts of minor importance. 
TEXAS. 
Distribution. — While pears in considerable quantity are grown in 
Texas, the producing areas with few exceptions are rather indefinite 
and correspondingly difficult to define. Probably the most important 
district for commercial production, potentially at least, is the upper 
Eio Grande Valley, where, within a distance of 40 miles of El Paso, 
a great many pear trees have been planted during recent years. Some 
of the orchards have come into bearing. This district is irrigated 
from the reservoir made by the Elephant Butte Dam. 
Another region in western Texas in which fruit interests, including 
pear growing on a small scale, are being developed, is located in the 
general region of Stockton, Pecos County, embracing adjacent parts 
of four counties, Pecos, Keeves, Jeff Davis, and Brewster. The 
topograph}' is broken and mountainous, the altitudes of some of the 
peaks in Jeff Davis County ranging from 5,000 to more than 8,000 
feet, though the higher elevations are not included within the fruit- 
producing area. 
In the Panhandle region, pear trees are general; but they repre- 
sent no important commercial activities. 
In the northern portion of the State, extending eastward from the 
Panhandle region and including an area three to four counties in 
width, there are grown a good many pears in the aggregate. Some 
commercial production occurs. 
The remaining portions of the State are unimportant from the 
standpoint of pear production, but trees and an occasional orchard 
are found widely distributed. 
Some years ago many orchards were planted in the Gulf coast 
region, but most of these proved unsatisfactory because of the preva- 
lence of blight. 
Varieties. — In the El Paso district the Bartlett has been largely 
planted. This, and a few others of the choicer varieties, also the 
Kieffer, have been planted in the Panhandle region. In other parts 
of the State, the Kieffer is the principal variety, but the Le Conte, 
Garber, Smith, and other sorts are also found. 
