. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 99. Winter Nelis. (XVz) sert fruits, and with their russeted coat and a ruddy cheek are handsome. The flesh is tender, melting, juicy, luscious, with a rich, sweet, aromatic flavor. The fruits keep, ship, and sell well. The season is from Christmas to March, but the pears can be kept until late spring in cold storage. No variety is more difficult to grow well in the nursery, and in the orchard the trees are among the unmanage- ables. They are small or of but medium size with straggling, waj'ward tops with habits of growth so self-assertive th
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 99. Winter Nelis. (XVz) sert fruits, and with their russeted coat and a ruddy cheek are handsome. The flesh is tender, melting, juicy, luscious, with a rich, sweet, aromatic flavor. The fruits keep, ship, and sell well. The season is from Christmas to March, but the pears can be kept until late spring in cold storage. No variety is more difficult to grow well in the nursery, and in the orchard the trees are among the unmanage- ables. They are small or of but medium size with straggling, waj'ward tops with habits of growth so self-assertive that no art nor skill of the pruner can bring the branches under control. Notwithstanding the poorly-shaped tops, the trees are often enormously productive. They bear almost annually; come in bearing young; are fairly hardy; and are adapted to almost any soil or situation, provided that the soil is fertile; and are as nearly immune to blight as those of any other European pear. The trees are characterized by two marked pe- culiarities; the old wood is thickly set with small short spurs; and they are about the latest of all their kind in leafing out in the spring. There is no better winter pear for either the commercial pear-grower or the amateur. Winter Nelis was raised from seed by Jean Charles Nelis, Mechlin, Belgium, early in the nineteenth century. Tree medium in size and vigor, spreading, hardy, very productive ; trunk stocky ; branches thick, zigzag, droop- ing, reddish-brown, marked with small lenticels. Leaves 3 inches long, 1*4 inches wide, elongated oval, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin crenate; petiole 1% inches long, slender. Flowers open late, 1% inches across, 6 or 7 buds in a cluster. Fruit ripe November to January; medium in size, 2*4 inches long, 2^ inches wide, uniform in size and shape, obtuse-obovate-pyriform, symmetrical; stem 1% inches long, thick, curved; cavity obtuse, shallow, narrow, russeted, gently furrowed, oc- casionally lipped; calyx large, ope
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