YES! IT’S TRUE! 
The Amazing Story of the 
GRAYWAY 
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THE NEW PEAR 
CREATED BY A COW! 
TRUTH IS STRANGER 
THAN FICTION 
And you'll agree after you have read 
this story of the new GRAYWAY “TEX- 
KING” PEAR—for the truth is that this 
pear was actually created by a cow. 
Here's the true story. Several years ago 
a Texas family purchased a pear tree. 
This family owned a cow that, like other 
cows, enjoyed eating green grass to give 
a lot of good white milk, as is the habit 
of all good cows. 
One day the family tied a rope around 
her neck—not to hang her, of course, but 
to keep her from wandering off. They tied 
the rope to a stake in the back yard so 
that she might eat the luscious grass that 
grew near the pear tree. 
The cow managed to get the rope 
wrapped securely around the young pear 
tree, breaking it off beneath the ground. 
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It surely looked like the end of that pear 
tree. But no—soon a green sprout appear- 
ed from below the graft, from the original 
wild or seedling roots. This sprout grew 
rapidly and soon becan to bear pears. 
And what pears! Nobody had ever seen 
anything like them. Experts in the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture said that so far 
as they knew, it was unlike any named 
variety. 
The cow had created an entirely new 
pear. The TEXKING is an early bearer— 
little trees only 3 to 4 feet high. The fruits 
are large, russet in color, and get sweet 
on the tree. It ripens early and keeps a 
long time. I have kept them in my refrig- 
erator until after Christmas. Flesh is 
smooth, with practically no grit. It’s grand 
for canning and preserving—and tastes 
mighty good right off the tree. We have 
never seen a pear produce more heavily, 
and the tree is a good upright grower 
For over 100 years, pear breeders have been trying 
to develop a blight-free pear of good quality for 
Most of our southern pears are suitable 
only for preserving, and we need a good eating pear 
The ORIENT pear was developed by the Tennessee 
A Agricultural Experiment Station. The trees have been 
healthy, vigorous, and enormous producers of greenish- 
yellow fruits that ripen about mid-August. 
The fruits are quite flattened at the base, and not 
The flesh is creamy-white, and almost 
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free from grit cells, melting and juicy; flavor mild, 
sweet, sub-acid, and good. 
a good salad pear. 
After gathering the fruits, lay them aside for a few 
days until they ripen, and you will enjoy eating them, 
but | have never been able to gather any that tasted 
good right from the tree. 
some on the kitchen table for a few days, thinking 
them unfit to eat—but a few days later Mrs. Gray 
served a delicious pear salad, and when | asked her 
where she got the pears, she told me they were the 
Excellent for canning, and 
| didn’t know this until | laid 
ones | had put on the table a few days before. 
way. 
Just to show you that we mean what we 
say, when we tell you the Cow-Pear (Texking) 
bears early, I’m going to offer to send you 
half your money back if the trees priced below 
fail to have pears on them the first summer 
after planting. 
PRICE: 2-Yr., branched trees, 
6 to 8 ft. Be 42 ee 
(Half-your-money-back if it 
pears on it the first summer) 
$4.95 Ea. 
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You can see from the illustration what an excellent 
producer the Orient is. 
and our trees have been perfectly healthy in every 
It is the best eating pear we have been able 
to grow in our test orchard. 
Medium, 4 to 6 Ft. size, 1-yr. trees, $1.95 each. 
We have never had any blight, 
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GRAY‘S IMPROVED KEIFFER PEAR. This 
fine strain of Keiffer has been having 
heavy crops the third summer in the 
nursery rows. It has been considered the 
best pear we cang row for sure produc- 
tion for preserving. When ripened in 
storage, it is delicious, too. Ripe, 
September. 
BALDWIN PEAR. A new pear sent to us 
said to have quality and blight-resist- 
ant. We haven't fruited it, but maybe 
you'd like to try it. 
BISCAMP PEAR. A NEW pear sent to us, 
said to have quality of Bartlett, and to 
be blight resistant. Think came from 
Texas Gulf Coast. Try it. 
BARTLETT PEAR. The well-known dessert 
pear. bughts in Texas, but many people 
want to plant it because of its eating 
quality 
EAR TREE PRICES { ¢ 
Garber, 
Heavy, well branched trees, 
6 to 8 ft. high, $2.95, $3.45, and $4.95. 
Not prepaid. 
mproved ,Keiffer, Baldwin, 
i Bartlett,* Orient. 
Biscamp, 
Keiffer, Bartlett, Orient. Medium 4 to 6 Ft. 1-Yr. 
Trees $1.95 each, not prepaid. 
“The Grayway Is the Best Way 
—Go Grayway All the Way!” 
