This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
D. Lee & Son, Madison, O., send samples, which were eaten the first week in August. It is a greenish yellow pear, about the size, form, and season of ripening, as Giffard, coarser flesh, rather sweeter, but on the whole we think not so good as a perfect Giffard. But the Giffard is not in favor with pear lovers, because it is a poor grower, liable to crack or something or another. It is claimed for the Fuller that it has superior characters in these lines, and may therefore reasonably expect to become popular.
 
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