Full description and color plate in Hedrick (1921). Grown as a seedling by Mrs. Maria Fleming, Curwin (Corwin?), Illinois, 1835. Added to APS catalog list in 1899. Fruit medium or above in size, roundish in form with slightly tapering neck. Skin fairly thick, yellowish in color, someties with dots. Flesh yellowish in color, somewhat coarse or granular, firm with considerable grit, reasonably juicy. Sweet, somewhat aromatic, but lacking in desirable flavor characteristics. Rather early in season. Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, very good foliage, fairly resistant to fire blight. While Lincoln has been extensively planted in the past, it has not become popular except in the midwestern states. -- H. Hartman 1957.Nearly a hundred years old without having received favorable mention from pear-growers, Lincoln has been brought from the limbo of lost fruits in recent years to take high rank in the list of pears for the Mississippi Valley. The variety is spoken of in such superlative terms for that region that it would seem that men give it attributes which Nature denies it. The fruits are but mediocre in appearance and quality, falling below a dozen other varieties of its season whether judged by the eye or the palate. At their best, they are comparable to those of Bartlett, which the western admirers of the variety say it resembles. Lincoln seems to possess a constitution to withstand cold, heat, and blight to which most pears are subject. The variety is valuable only in the Middle West.