Originally collected by F.N. Meyer Also collected by F.C. Reimer in 1917. He called it the 'small' Suan Li as opposed to 'Ta Suan Li' (see CPYR 1148) which translates to 'Big Sour Pear': In a small valley in the mountains west of Peking, I found a variety locally known as 'Suan Li' meaning sour pear. This is an interesting variety and in some respects comes very close to the Ping Li (see CPYR 454). It differs chiefly from that variety in the longer stem of the fruit, color not quite so attractive, and perhaps hardly equal to it in quality. The leaves also are slightly longer. Aside from this, the description for Ping Li fits this variety very well. It should be tested as a variety for home use, local market, and should be extensively used in breeding work. I obtained scionwood of this and succeeded in getting a few of the scions to live. Inoculation experiments proved that this variety, while not immune in the tender shoots, is highly resistant to pear blight. It is a variety of P. ussuriensis. -- F.C. Reimer. 1919. Report of a trip to the Orient to collect and study Oriental pears.