J. H. GIRARDEAU, PROPRIETOR, MONTICELLO, FLORIDA. 
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Pears. 
Our specialty is growing high-grade Pear trees. We fill orders from a half-dozen to a car-load. We 
have had orders from almost every state in the Union, and several from Mexico, and can furnish testimo- 
nials by the hundred as to the uniform excellence of our stock and packing. While prices for Pears 
shipped to Northern markets sometimes rule low. yet in the long run, there are few investments that pay 
better than a Pear orchard. We would specially recommend the Japanese strain of Pears and their 
hybrids for general orchard planting in the South. 
KIEFFER. 
GENERAL LIST. 
Kieffer. Tree remarkably vigorous, and is an 
early and very prolific bearer. The fruit is of good 
size, good color, good quality, and is a good variety 
for table or for market. Ripens all of October and 
part of November. Begins to bear at 3 years. Trees 
10 years old will produce 10 bushels of fruit. As a 
fall Pear, there is no variety which has given such 
profitable returns. The Kieffer is very productive, 
and often the fruit has to be thinned early in the 
season to keep the limbs from breaking. 
It is not a good plan to plant a solid orchard of 
Kieffer. as the pollen does not properly fertilize. 
We would recommend every tenth row planted with 
varieties which blossom at the same time, such as 
Le Conte, Smith’s Hybrid, Garber, etc. 
Le Conte. This Pear is too well and favorably 
known to need an introduction in the South, where 
its advent gave a great stimulus to fruit growing. 
Being easily propagated, yielding enormous crops, 
coming into market ahead of all competitors, its 
friends and growers can jingle the contents of their 
pockets and laugh at its detractors. 
Smith’s Hybrid. Resembles the Le Conte some- 
what ; is a very healthy variety, but does not come 
up to the Garber in flavor. 
Garber’s Hybrid. This is beyond all question 
the best flavored Pear that can be grown in the 
South. As market Pears the Le Conte and Kieffer 
may take the lead, but for eating there is no com- 
parison. In health and vigor it compares favorably 
with the Kieffer. 
Mikado. Is also like the above list, a native of 
the east. The tree is quite handsome, with very large 
leaves. The fruit is apple-shaped, and when ripe 
is a bright yellow, covered with russet spots. 
Chinese Sand. A remarkably healthy variety. 
Fruit very large, beautiful golden yellow when ripe. 
KIEFFER PEARS FOR PIGS. 
X a progressive farmer said the other day that he .% 
•*♦ had fed his pigs the whole summer on mulberries V 
*•* and Kieffer Pears (he has an acre of each). He 
V said the mulberries fed them till the Pears were *•. 
*♦* ready, and that the Kieffers would last till pinders **• 
v were ripe. 
moral. - 
for pigs. 
Plant mulberries and Kieffer Pears 
Valuable New Pears. 
LINCOLN CORELESS. This possesses a striking 
peculiarity in the fact that the truit has neither seed 
nor core, being all solid, rich meat. It is from Ten- 
nessee, where the original tree is yet standing, over 
sixty years old, and has seldom failed to bear. The 
fruit is very large — sometimes weighing from a pound 
to a pound and a-half — high-colored and handsome ; 
flesh of a rich yellow tint, mellow and aromatic. 
In season it is late, and the Pears are picked when 
hard and green, and laid away to ripen. It has kept 
in an ordinary cellar until March — longer than any 
other Pear has been known to keep. Being also a 
good shipper, is a valuable Pear for market. 
JAPAN GOLDEN RUSSET. From Japan, and 
remarkable in many ways. The fruit is flat or 
apple-shaped, very regular and uniform, of good size 
— 8 or 10 inches around — and becomes of a hand- 
some golden-russet color, hanging in clusters. The 
tree is a luxuriant grower, with an abundance of 
thick, tough, leathery foliage, enabling it to endure 
great heat and drought without injury. It is an 
extremely early bearer, and bears enormously every 
year. Ripens in September. 
FITZWATER. This is the latest novelty in Pears. 
Its introducer has received hundreds of flattering 
testimonials from the leading nurserymen of this 
country. From having seen and eaten this fruit, I 
can freely indorse what has been said in praise of 
this delicious little Pear. It ripens in November, 
and keeps till Christmas. 
COLE’S CORELESS. Bears early, is very hardy, 
and is entirely free from core; it is almost seedless 
also. 
CANNER’S JAPAN, HUBBARD’S JAPAN, 
JAPAN WONDER. These are late importations from 
the land of the Mikado. In fruit and foliage they 
resemble the Japan Golden Russet and the Mikado. 
They are well worth trying ; very ornamental. 
PRICE OF PEARS, Each Per 10 Per 100 
General list, x-year, 3 to 6 feet Jo 10 $0 90 $8 50 
Hew Pears, i-year, 3 to 6 feet . 15 1 25 10 00 
2-year, branched . . 20 1 50 12 00 
