Garber is one of many seedlings of the Chinese Sand pear, raised by J. B. Garber, Columbia, Pennsylvania, sometime previous to 1880. It is supposed to be of hybrid origin. The variety was added to the American Pomological Society's list of recommended fruits in 1891 where it has since remained. Tree medium in size, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, productive with age; branches smooth, zigzag, reddish-brown partly covered with grayish scarf-skin; branchlets thick, with long internodes, smooth, glabrous, sprinkled with small, round, very conspicuous, raised lenticels. Leaf-buds small, short, pointed and with curved tips, appressed. Leaves 3-1/2 in. long, 2-1/4 in. wide, thick; apex taper-pointed; margin with very minute and reddish tips, finely serrate; petiole 2-1/4 in. long, thick. Flower-buds small, conical, sharply pointed, free. Fruit ripe September to October; large, usually roundish-oblong and tapering toward both ends; stem 1 in. long, stout, obliquely set; cavity small, narrow, often deep and furrowed; calyx variable in size, partly open; lobes slender; basin broad, abrupt, deep, furrowed; color pale yellow, often with a brownish-red blush on the exposed cheek; dots small, numerous, russet; flesh white, granular, crisp but tender, juicy, neither sweet nor sour but with a peculiar, pleasant flavor; quality inferior. [Illustration: GLOU MORCEAU] GLOU MORCEAU =1.= _Mag. Hort._ =21=:143. 1855. =2.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 503. 1857. =3.= _Ibid._ 773. 1869. =4.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 586. 1884. =5.= _Jour. Hort._ 3rd Ser. =14=:203. 1887. =6.= Bunyard _Handb. Hardy Fr._ 178. 1920. _Gloux Morceau._ =7.= _Trans. Lond. Hort. Soc._ 2nd App. =5=:6. 1824. =8.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 194. 1832. _Hardenpont's Winter Butterbirne._ =9.= Liegel _Syst. Anleit._ 104. 1825. =10.= Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =2=:99. 1856. =11.= Lauche _Deut. Pom._ =II=: No. 11, Pl. 11. 1882. =12.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 231. 1889. _Glout Morceau._ =13.= Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 400. 1831. =14.= _Gard. Chron._ 716, fig. 1. 1844. =15.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 437, fig. 201. 1845. =16.= Hovey _Fr. Am._ =1=:5, Pl. 1851. =17.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 325. 1854. =18.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 68. 1862. _Beurré d'Hardenpont._ =19.= _Pom. France_ =1=: No. 12, Pl. 12. 1863. =20.= Mas _Le Verger_ =1=:5, fig. i. 1866-73. =21.= _Guide Prat._ 60, 246. 1876. =22.= _Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom._ 370, fig. 1904. _Beurré d'Arenberg._ =23.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:301, fig. 1867.