Brief description in Proceedings of APS, 1922. Fruit of no consequence. Tree highly resistant to blight but somewhat susceptible to winter injury in southern Oregon. -- H. Hartman 1957.The Georgia Experiment Station received scions of this pear in 1910. The scions were taken from a very large tree growing on the plantation of Mrs. B.N. Stuckey, near Nesmith, South Carolina... It's chief and most interesting characteristic is that it is highly resistant, almost to the extent of immunity, to pear blight. The trees... have been subjected to the most rigid trials for infection to fire blight... the variety is so highly resistant that the orchardist may plant the trees without fear of blight. The exact history is unknown. Its botanical characteristics indicate that it is a hybrid between P. serotina and P. communis. Its exact parentage and time of origin, however, will probably never be known... Mr. George D. Lowe, investigating this subject, says in part, 'In the winter of 1888, Dr. C.C. Daniel, a prominent Liberty county, Georgia, physician, drove up to the gate of the John W. DeLoach plantation, some 40 miles south of the LeConte place, and now in Long county, Georgia. He handed Mr. DeLoach a pear switch with the remark that he had cut it from the finest pear tree he had ever seen in his life down on the island (near Brunswick, Georgia) advising Mr. DeLoach to set it immediately, which he did. It was placed in a small orchard of blighting Le Contes and Kieffers and grew off rapidly, as the pear always does in south Georgia... It appears that the original Pineapple pear was given to a planter in South Carolina by a relative who was an officer in Commodore Perry's fleet which visited China and Japan in the middle fifties, and brought the rooted pear from China when he returned. The tree now stands still vigorous and in bearing, nine feet in circumference just above the ground and with a tremendous spread of limbs... a few trees of this pear... have been located in widely scattered places in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi... This pear cannot be classed as a dessert pear. In quality of fruit it would be classed along with the Le Conte and Garber. It is perceptibly better than the Kieffer, though it could not be considered along with such varieties as the Seckel or Bartlett. Canneries report that it brings a premium above the Kieffer when canned and is in great demand by those who consume canned pears. -- H.P. Stuckey, Proceedeengs of the American Pomological Society, 1922.