Mr. Edwin Satter-thwaite said at the recent meeting of the State Horticultural Association at Harrisburg, January 16th, 1883: "I have fruited the Kieffer three years, and had last year more than one hundred bushels of the fruit, of uniform large size and as perfect in shape as if made in a mould, and all ripening of a rich golden yellow color, quite a number with a beautiful red cheek, keeping for weeks after coloring and when perfectly ripe of uniform good quality. It must be borne in mind that this pear is not fit to eat until perfectly ripe and soft, which it commonly is not until long after it begins to color."