There is some confusion as to the identity of this variety. Mathews and other authors have contended that it is identical with Sudduth. Trees labeled Burkett and Sudduth at the Southern Oregon Branch Station are identical in both tree and fruit characteristics. If Burkett and Sudduth are one and the same variety, the name Burkett should have priority becausek, according to Hedrick, it was used in 1880, whereas the name Sudduth was not applied until 1895. Full description and color plate in Hedrick (page 220) under the name Sudduth. Fruit small in size, roundish in form, greenish-yellow in color. Flat in taste with disagreeable after-taste. Of no value as fruit. Tree very vigorous, healthy, spreading in habit, with dark green, abundant foliage. Highly resistant to blight and when crossed with some other blight-resistant variety produces a high percentage of blight resistant seedlings. -- H. Hartman, Oregon Ag. Experiment Station, 1957.Reported to the Illinois Horticultural Society in 1880 by C.S. Capps of Mt. Pulaski who described it as a 'miserable apology' for a pear, though exempt from blight. It was mentioned in a communication to the American Pomological Society in 1911 by Charles G. Patten, Charles City, Iowa, as a variety which originating in Illinois had resisted blight for a period of forty-five years in South Iowa. It has been suggested that this and Sudduth may be the same. -- U.P. Hedrick, The Pears of New York, 1921.