. Wholesale price list of Augustine & Co., nurserymen. Nursery stock Illinois Normal Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. NORMAIv, IIvI^INOIS. 5 Price of Pear Trees —Continued. LIXCOLN PEAR. EACH 10 100 4 to 6 feet, 1 year, very thrifty | $ .20 i S ! $ 5 to 7 feet, extra — 4 to 5 feet, medium KEIFFER PEAR. COMMON VARIETIES. 5 to 7 feet, extra 4 to 6 feet, medium I -25 | | 1 -40 1 1 .1 .35 1 1 .1 .30 1 1 .1 .25 1 1 THE LINCOLN PEAR. The Lincoln Pear has been one of our specialties for the last
. Wholesale price list of Augustine & Co., nurserymen. Nursery stock Illinois Normal Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. NORMAIv, IIvI^INOIS. 5 Price of Pear Trees —Continued. LIXCOLN PEAR. EACH 10 100 4 to 6 feet, 1 year, very thrifty | $ .20 i S ! $ 5 to 7 feet, extra — 4 to 5 feet, medium KEIFFER PEAR. COMMON VARIETIES. 5 to 7 feet, extra 4 to 6 feet, medium I -25 | | 1 -40 1 1 .1 .35 1 1 .1 .30 1 1 .1 .25 1 1 THE LINCOLN PEAR. The Lincoln Pear has been one of our specialties for the last fifteett years. The increased demand for it from year to year has invariably taken nearly all of our one- year stock, though each year we have increased our plant, sufficient, as we thought, to insure our getting- out at least a reasonable amount of two-year trees. This year the demand has been so great that we can offer only one-year-old trees. These are very fine, however, four to six feet high and very thrifty. We are the original propagators of the Lincoln Pear, and had our attention first called to this remarkable fruit by Mr. Calvin Grapes, some fifteen years ago. The seed from which the original tree sprung was brought from Urbana, (Dhio, by Mr. Grapis' mother-in-law in 1836, and after repeat- ed urgings on the part of Mr. Grapes, who had knov^n of the value of the tree for a great many years, our Mr. H. Augustine went to investigate it. From the wonderful vigor of the old tree, now over sixty-five years old, together with the fine appearance of the young bearing trees that Mr. Grapes had propagated and planted on his old farm, its remarkable bearing qualities, and the esteem in which the pear was held in the neighborhood by the old settlers, we were con- vinced that the tree certainly had merit. AVe had some time previous to this devoted much attention to seek- ing out a pear that was adapted to our prairie soil. The Lincoln from the first has continually gaiaed fav
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