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The Amazing Story © 
| TERE! 
CREATED BY 
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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THE NEW PEAR 
A cow! 
ie ORIENT 
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A New Pear that's he South 
Blight-resistant for t 
For over 100 years, pear breeders have been trying 
to develop a blight-free pear of good quality for 
the South. Most of our southern pears are suitable 
only for preserving, and we need a good eating 
pear that we can grow ourselves. 
The Orient pear was developed by the Tennes- 
see 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 too smooth. The flesh is creamy-white and 
almost free from grit cells, melting and juicy; flavor 
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 began 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. 
mild, sweet, sub-acid, and good. Excellent for can- 
ning, and 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. | didn’t know 
this until | laid 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 I asked her where she got the pears, she told 
me they were the ones | had put on the table a few 
days before. 
You can see from the illustration what an ex- 
cellent producer the Orient is. We have never had 
any blight, and our trees have been perfectly 
healthy in every way. It is the best eating pear 
we have been able to grow in our test orchard. 
Prices: Medium trees; heavy, branched trees about 
6 to 8 ft. high, $2.95, $3.75, $4.95, not prepaid. 
‘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 can grow 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 
0 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 
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: 2Yr., branched trees, 
(Half-your-money-back if it doesn’t have 
pears on it the first summer) 
NOTE: We can prune this tree back to meet 
postal requirements and pack and mail 
POSTPAID to within 150 miles, $5.95 Ea. 
pear. Blights in Texas, but many people 
want to plant it because of its eating 
quality. 
Peer Tree Prices _ 
Improved Keiffer, ‘Garber, Baldwin, Bis- 
camp, Bartlett, Orient. Heavy, well 
branched trees, 6 to 8 ft. high, $2.95, 
$3.45 ,and $4.95. Not prepaid. 
Keiffer, Orient. Medium 1-Yr. trees, 1.95, 
not prepaid. 
“The Grayway Is the Best Way 
—Go Grayway All the Way!” 
