SIMS SELECTED PEAR TREES 
Tested Varieties, Easy to Grow 
The easiest to grow of all tree fruits. The varieties listed 
here we have found more resistant to blight and other dis- 
eases. All are sure heavy bearers. 
“SECKEL — The Honey Pear 
The little Sugar Pear everyone knows. Borne in clusters every 
year. Delicious honey sweet melting flavor, wonderful for fresh use. 
They are also very good for pickles or preserves. Trees hardy, semi- 
dwarf, bountiful annual bearers. 
\ LINCOLN — Highest Quality, Blight Free 
Lincoln is recognized everywhere to be one of the best flavored, 
easy to grow, hardiest Pear. It is almost free from blight. Bears very 
young. Tremendous crops of golden yellow fruit when full ripe. Com- 
pares in flavor and quality to Bartlett. Readily accepted on all mar- 
kets as a canning and dessert Pear. Ripens in mid-August. 
-PATTEN 
Very hardy, recommended for northern states planting, as well as 
southern. Patten is a strong, vigorous growing tree, and very produc- 
tive. The fruit is large size, resembling Bartlett in form. Very 
tender, juicy, and good quality. Ripens in September. Very resistant 
to blight. In our test orchard which is ten years old, our Patten trees 
have never shown any blight, and have produced large, annual crops 
each year. Therefore, we recommend it as one of the best Pears for 
either home or commercial planting. \ DUCHESS 
BARTLETT — The Delicious Eating Pear A very large, oblong Pear usually with a somewhat un- 
One of the very best canning, eating and marketing Pears. Sweet, even surface. The skin is a dull greenish yellow color and 
tender, juicy flesh with an aroma and flavor equalled by none. Bartlett heavily streaked and spotted with russet. Duchess is a 
will sell on any market, even when the other varieties are not in very good quality Pear with snowy white flesh that is 
demand. tender and buttery, very juicy and fragrant. The tree is 
Tree is a fast, upright grower, bears young and abundantly. Does medium sized, grows compactly and upright. 
best on fertile soil, under best cultivated conditions; one or two 
Bartlett trees will furnish plenty of fresh fruit for the family and 
surplus for canning and preserving. 
SIMS 
ORCHARD TESTED 
FRUIT TREES 
We know they will 
please you. Each year 
we Satisfy many 
of the best 
fruit grow- 
ers in the 
Us s.7A: 
KIEFFER — Hardiest and Best Keeper of All 
Of all the Pears, Kieffer is a leader, because of its hardiness and its ability 
to adapt itself to a wide range of soil and climatic conditions; from the 
southernmost states to Canada, Kieffer’is a leader. 
Kieffer rates tops in keeping quality. No other Pear can compare with 
Kieffer when stored in common or cold storage. The fruit is very large 
in size, golden yellow with a slight red cheek, very juicy. You won't go wrong 
planting Kieffer. 
Sims Pear Tree Prices 
l- and 2-Year Trees: 
Each 10-49 50 or more 
5/16.in.,'2 to 3 ft) 72. $1.00 $0.80 $0.75 
7/1631, 3. tO: 4 ee LO 1.05 .85 
S/1Ghin..-47to.> {Cee 1.35 1.15 .95 
Write for Prices on Large Quantities 
These Prices are PREPAID. Nothing More to Pay. 
Be Sure to Give Your Express and Post Office. 
Special Bargain No. 21 
1 Kieffer Pear 1 Seckel (Sugar Pear) 
1 Damson Plum 
All Three, 4-Ft. Trees 
for only 
$2.70 
Bartlett 
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