. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1680. The Sand Pear. Pyrus Sinensis (X/^). PEAR. Plate XXVII. The cultivated Pear, as known in North America, is derived from two distinct sources, the European Pyrics conimiinis and the Oriental Pyrus Sinensis. Pears of the European stock have been grown in North America from the earliest settlement of the cou
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1680. The Sand Pear. Pyrus Sinensis (X/^). PEAR. Plate XXVII. The cultivated Pear, as known in North America, is derived from two distinct sources, the European Pyrics conimiinis and the Oriental Pyrus Sinensis. Pears of the European stock have been grown in North America from the earliest settlement of the country. They thrive particularly well in the New Eng- land states and New York, and west to the Great Lake;^, and asain on the Pacific slope. In the great interior. 1681. LeConte fore the middle of the century the Sand or Chinese Pear (Pyrus Sinensis), Pig. 1080, was introduced into the eastern states, although it attracted little atteution. It soon hybridized with the common Pear, and a race of mongrel varieties was the result. Of these hybrids only two have gained great commercial prominence. These are LeConte and Kieffer. Figs. 1081-3. The LeConte was found to be well adai>ted to the southern states and its general introduction there after the close of the civil war was the beginning of commercial Pear culture in the south. It was first supposed to be blight-proof, buc in recent years the orchards have been nearly deci- mated by the blight with the result that the LeConte is gradually lessening in importance and its place is being taken by the Kieffer, although the latter is by no means blight-free. The Kieffer Pear originated with Peter Kieffer, of Roxborough, Philadelphia, an Alsatian gar- dener, who died in 1890. He grew the Chinese Sand Pear and sold the seedlings as ornamental trees, for this spe- cies is of very distinct and handsome growth and the fruit is ornamental and fragrant. Alongside the Sand Pears were Bartletts. Amongst one of the batches of seedlings from t
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