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Bartlett Pears Pineapple Pear 
PEARS from June to October 
OU can have fresh Pears for six months or longer if the right sorts are selected, 
First they come fresh from the tree; then from those that have been stored in a 
cool place. Bartlett, Koonce, and Kieffer are excellent varieties for the hill and 
mountain sections; Kieffer, Pineapple, and Le Conte for the lower hill and sandy 
sections. Kieffer and Pineapple should be allowed to ripen on the tree, getting light waxy 
yellow; then store in a cool place for a week or two. 
Pears begin bearing two to three years after planting, depending on variety and 
attention they get. They grow best on moist, rich Iands, but are more subject to blight 
where growth is vigorous and heavy, so it is best to give them just average lands and not 
push them too fast. Where blight appears, cut out and burn it promptly, keeping saw 
or knife thoroughly disinfected with creosote, carbolic acid, or other disinfectant. Careful 
and thorough pruning will do much to lessen this disease. 
In planting Pear trees, head them back near the ground and cut back a year or two, 
so tree will be in reach of the sprayer and so the fruit can be picked easily. Pears should 
be well sprayed for rot and worms. 
BARTLETT. August 1 to 15. Large; yellow, | LE CONTE. Middle to last of July. Fruit 
with a soft blush on the sunny side; flesh large; skin greenish yellow; flesh white, 
white, exceedingly fine-grained and buttery, melting, of medium quality. Excellent for 
sweet, very juicy, with a highly perfumed, evaporating and canning. 
vinous flavor. Trees begin to bear large ORIENT. Early August. A vigorous grower 
crops while still young. Justly esteemed and extremely heavy bearer. The fruit is 
one of the best Pears m cultivation and large, often 3 inches in diameter, with thick, 
deserves a place in every collection. tough skin. Flesh is creamy white, of good 
KIEFFER. September and October. Fruit texture and mild flavor. Good for eating 
large, dotted yellow, with dull crimson fresh but especially good for canning. 
where exposed to sun. Let hang on tree | PINEAPPLE (Chinese Sand Pear). Octo- 
until fruit takes on a faint waxy light ber. Large, handsome fruit with odor re- 
yellow. Gather and store in a cool place sembling the pineapple. Fairly good 
without bruising, and in a week or ten days quality, with crisp, coarse flesh. Especially 
you will have as fine fruit as you would fine for cooking or canning. Tree is a 
wish for, and Pears that will bring a good vigorous grower and heavy bearer. Adapted 
price in any market. Tree makes an upright to either dry sandy soil or moist land. So 
growth, and its large glossy leaves make it far it has proved blight-proof. Largely 
quite ornamental. planted commercially in the lower South. 
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