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652 



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656 



657 

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659 



660 



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669 



670 



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Van Mons. 



Van Mons, late. 



Van Solingen. 



Venus. 



Verlaine, 



Verlaine d'ete. 



Vermillion (Tete, 

 see jargonelle, 

 of the French. 



verte longue - 

 moidlle bonche, 

 muscat fleure* 

 new autumn. 



verte longue pa- 

 nachee - - 



Suisse, 



cnlotte de Suisse. 



V icar. 



vierge, 



vin, see St. Gall. 



de vigne pelone, 



see comtesse 



de Frenol. 

 vigne - - - 



demoiselle. 

 vin de Stuttgardl 

 vhiter Oegge. 

 virgouleuse 



poire glace, 



Chambrette. 

 Bujaleuf. 



virgouleuse, 

 Newtown. 



virgouleuse, 

 Prince's, 

 voleur. 

 Wolpool. 

 warden, brown 

 Washington - 

 wasserbirne 



zankersbirne. 

 Waterloo - - 



Weigsdorffer, see 

 Stuttgarter 

 Gaishirtel. 



Weely. 



Welbeck - - 



We Ibeck seedling 

 Whitfield - - 

 winter poplin, see 



bezi de Cais- 

 soy, 



Windsor - - 



ciiisse madame 



(of some). 

 monarch (of 



some). 

 Windsor, wintei 

 wine. 

 wilding of Cats- 



SOI/, see bezi 



de Caissoy. 



winter thorny see 

 6pine deliver. 



Wolfs pear • 

 Wormsley 



Grange - - 



JVurtemberg, see 



Napoleon, 

 wurzer • - 



wurzer d^ati- 

 to nine, 

 yellow Bam- 



briech. 

 Yutte (poire). 



zankersbimey see 

 Wasserbirne. 



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p-y 



y.b 



g. rus 



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obo. 



pyr, 



pyr, 



tur. 



obo. 



obo. 



obo. 

 obo. 



tur. 



obo 



obo 



pyr 



obo 



obi. 



pyr. 



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10 



10 



10 



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Remarks. 



Keeps well, 



but its quality 



is far inferior 

 to the easier 

 beurre. 



Good bearer. 



Like the for- 

 mer, but strip- 

 ed with green 

 and yellow. 



Flesh yellow : 

 tree vigorous ; 

 but a bad 

 bearer. 



S Great bearer. 



Tree vigorous, 

 but sometimes 

 subject to can- 

 ker. 



Tree vigorous. 



Propagation, — The pear may be propagated by layers or 

 suckers, but not easily by cuttings. These modes, however, 

 are productive of very indifferent plants, and are justly rejected 

 in favour of raising from seed, and grafting or budding. 



Frovi seed. — This mode is adopted either for the purpose of 

 obtaining new varieties, or for producing pear stocks ; in the 

 former case the same principles of selection or crossing are to 

 be followed as in raising seedling apples, between which and 

 the pear tree the chief difference is, that the latter requires a 

 longer period, nearly double, to come into bearing. 



In raising pears for stocksy the seeds from perry-makers are 

 generally made use of, but the most proper are those from the 

 wild pears^ as likely to produce plants more hardy and durable. 

 There is, however, less difference between the pear stocks or 

 those raised from the cultivated fruit and wild pear stocks, 

 than there is between the free apple and crab stocks. The seeds 

 being procured, may be sown and afterwards treated as directed 

 for seedling crab or apple-tree stocks. 



By grafting and budding, — The most common stocks on 

 which the 2^ ear is grafted, are the common pear and wild ^^ear; 

 the pear J is, however, dwarfed and brought earlier into a bearing 

 state by grafting or budding on the quince or white-thorn. The 

 pear wall also succeed well on the whitebeam, medlar, service, 

 or apple, but stocks of the wild pear and quince are in most 



Pears, on free stocks, grow most luxuriantly in 

 good soil and on a dry bottom, those on wild pear stocks grow 

 less rapidly, but are deemed more durable, and will thrive on 

 the poorest soil, if a hardy variety and not over pruned. ** On 

 the quince,*' Miller observes, " breaking pears are rendered 

 gritty and stony ; but the melting sorts are much improved ; 

 trees on these stocks may be planted in a moist soil with more 

 success than those on the wild pear stocks or thorns." On the 

 thorn, j^car^ come very early into bearing, continue prolific, and 

 in respect to soil will thrive well on a strong clay, which is un- 

 suitable both to those on quinces or wild pearsy but it is sup- 

 posed to have an unfavourable influence on the fruit, in render- 

 ing it smaller and hard ; and the graft or buds require to be 

 inserted very low, that the moisture of the earth may tend to 

 favour the swelling or enlargement of the diameter of the stock, 



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which does not increase proportionably to, nor ever attams, me 

 same size as the stem o£ the pear. The free and wild pear 

 stocks are to be planted in nursery rows at the same distances 

 as recommended for free or wild apples ; and the qumce an 

 thorn at the same distance as the Paradise stocks and creeper 

 apples ; in other respects the management is the same as for tne 



general use. 



apple. 



Choice of sorts.— Select from the catalogue given, ace 



ording 



to purpose and quality. ^ 



Abercrombie takes trees at one yeartrorn 



the graft, and thence to the sixth year or older. 



Choice of ptants. - , 



^ ^ - Forsyth says 



" I would advise those who intend to plant pear trees, instead o^ 

 choosing young ones, to look out for the oldest that they ca 

 find in the nursery, and with strong stems." 



Soil and site,—'' A dry deep loam," Abercrombie observe^ 

 " is accounted the best soil for the pear-tree, when the ^}^^^ .^ 

 of its own species ; on a quince stock it wants a moist s j 

 without which it will not prosper. Gravel is a good f^^'r" j 

 where the incumbent mould is suitable. Cold clay is a 

 sub-soil; to prevent fruit trees from striking into ^^^'j^^^, ^ 

 be laid just under the roots. For wall trees the sod shouia ^^ 

 made good to the depth of :2 or 3 feet ; for orchard trees ^^ 

 inches may do. Pear trees, on their own stocks, will thrive ^^ 

 land, where apples will not even live; supposing ^"^Pt"i^3vc 

 be hardy varieties, little removed from wild pears, and to ^^^ 

 room to grow freely as standards. To the more choice o ^^^^ 

 early autumn and prime winter pears, assign south-east- or 



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