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 testimonials 
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. 
See Last Page for Prices. 
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. Skin deep yellow, orange 
yellow in the sun, with a few patches and nettings of 
russet and many brown russet dots. Flesh whitish, 
a little coarse, juicy, half-melting, sweet ; quality 
very good, partaking slightly of the Chinese Sand 
Pear. Ripens all of October and part of November. 
Begins to bear at 3 years. Trees 10 years old will 
produce ro 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. The small Pears thus taken 
off can be ripened, and command fair prices. 
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 va- 
rieties 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 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. 
VALUABLE NEW PEARS. 
Lincoln Coreless. This possesses a striking 
peculiarity in the fact that 
the fruit 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 — some- 
times 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 re- 
markable 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 handsome 
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 of 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 
they are well worth trying ; very ornamental. 
Money for Women. 
'1 hey are always short of « 
cash. VVe men are so un- 
thinkingly selfish. A good 
plan on the farm is to : 
plant say an acre of the 
best land to a variety 
family fruit patch ; have 
all the family can wallow 
in, and let the ladies sell 
in, anci let tne laaies sen ♦ 
♦ the surplus from day to ♦ 
♦ day. There is fun as well $ 
ined* ♦ 
r £j 
♦ as money in this scheme. ♦ 
♦ A friend of ours obtained * 
♦ $145 this way one year. 
