. Stark fruit book. Nursery stock Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowering shrubs Catalogs. Ben Davis among pears—no more, no less. Wonderful cropper; 4-yr. trees have yielded 3 bu. each of perfect fruit. Demand for trees is something unprecedented. It has paid, and profit is a * wonderful factor in deciding many disputed points. Excellent for canning, but should not be used until weeks after gathered—then, «good as Bartlett.)) Keeps easily till midwinter, fm. NCS. ^ Remarkable—the only pear exhibited freely on Phila. fruit stands during midwint
. Stark fruit book. Nursery stock Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowering shrubs Catalogs. Ben Davis among pears—no more, no less. Wonderful cropper; 4-yr. trees have yielded 3 bu. each of perfect fruit. Demand for trees is something unprecedented. It has paid, and profit is a * wonderful factor in deciding many disputed points. Excellent for canning, but should not be used until weeks after gathered—then, «good as Bartlett.)) Keeps easily till midwinter, fm. NCS. ^ Remarkable—the only pear exhibited freely on Phila. fruit stands during midwinter is Kieffer. In abundance everywhere. "\Miatever critics may say, Somebody Likes Them. They SELL. Another good point—hke the apple. they'do not rot easily by handling,—as do other pears. Have eaten them equal in luscious richness to any pear I ever ate. . The most wonderful production of the age.—Prof. Thus. Mzehax, Ed. Meehan's Monthly. Has Never Blighted with me; to-day the most popular pear; everybody planting for profit should set it largely. More Kieffer trees now in commercial orchards than any other.' Aniong -peavs what Ben Davis is among apples. I recommended it from the start; have caused thousands of trees to be planted.—Judge Sam'l Miller, 1897. Sold at Home, entire crop from 1000 trees Stark Kieffer; could have sold 1000 bu. more.—M. A. ARTHfR. Mo. Best and largest fruit ever raised here. I grew from Stark trees: one Kieffer weighed 2 pounds.—J. M. Hicks, Ark. Second Summer, Stark Kieffer alL bearing. Attract much attention, bearing so yoimg.—"W. C. Marten, 111. Gathered 5 bu. pears from 50 Bartlett; my large Kieffer orchard averaged 5 bu. a tree.—A. LoxG, St. Louis, Co., Mo. Others shrink with dismay when Kieffer is named; indeed, the matter might well resolve itself into— Much Ado About Nothing, A Comedy of Errors, As You Like it, or What You Will, but—«Richard's himself)) and will be long years to come. Mo. Hort. Soc., 1897
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