. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. IDAHO KIEFFER 91 IDAHO. There is much difference of opin- ion as to the value of Idaho. Without ques- tion, the variety is of considerable worth in parts of the Pacific Northwest, especially in regions where hardihood is a prime requi- site. In the East, the pears are only medium in size, but they are attractive in color and of excellent taste. The core is small, and the seeds are often abortive and sometimes want- ing. The flesh is tender, butterj- and almost free from granulation, with a rich, sweet, vinous flavor which make the rating for
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. IDAHO KIEFFER 91 IDAHO. There is much difference of opin- ion as to the value of Idaho. Without ques- tion, the variety is of considerable worth in parts of the Pacific Northwest, especially in regions where hardihood is a prime requi- site. In the East, the pears are only medium in size, but they are attractive in color and of excellent taste. The core is small, and the seeds are often abortive and sometimes want- ing. The flesh is tender, butterj- and almost free from granulation, with a rich, sweet, vinous flavor which make the rating for this fruit "good to very ; In many regions, the pears are large, rough and gross—some- times a facsimile of Duchesse d'Angouleme. The trees are rather dwarf and are fruitful to a fault, so that the pears often run small; they are hardier than those of almost any other pear and bear annually. To offset these good characters, the trees have the fault of blighting, so that the variety is of value only in regions where blight is not an annual scourge of this fruit. Idaho was raised from seed of an unknown variety about the year 1867 by a Mrs. Mulkey, Lewiston, Idaho. Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, very produc- tive ; branches slender, smooth, reddish-brown, sprinkled with many small lenticels. Leaves 3% inches long, 1% inches wide, leathery; apex abruptly pointed ; niarsni glandular, finely serrate ; petiole 2 inches long. Flowers showy, 1% inches across, in dense clusters, nearly in racemes, average 8 buds in a cluster. Fruit matures late September-October; medium in size, 2 inches long, 2% inches wide, roundish, slightly pyriform, sj-mmetrical ; stem 1 inch long, thick, slightly cuned ; cavi:y acute, narrow, furrowed, slightly lipped ; calyx closed; lol>es broad, acute; basin shallow, obtuse, somewhat furrowed; skin thick and granular, tough, roughish ; color dull lemon-yellow, tinged with green, dotted and streaked with russet, splashed with russet
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