Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Huntsville Wholesale Nurseries: Autumn 1886 The blight would take entire rows of certain varieties, ruining every tree, until it came to a Sand Pear tree, which it would pass untouched, taking the next, Of several hundred varieties of pears in my orchard, the Sand Pear was the only variety that had not been affected with blight, until the introduction of the Kieffer, which thus far has fully held its own with the Sand Pear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.