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and others who have been growing them. They did not claim for 

 it good quality, but, like the Ben Davis, they will do to sell. 



Mr. Hale, of Connecticut — I have fruited it for two years, and 

 for several years have tested samples. While the tree is a good 

 grower and the i>ears beautiful, I never saw one that I thought was 

 fit for any human being to eat. 



Mr. Munson — About the LeConte in Texas, I have seen them 

 blight where cultivated, but not where uncultivated. The fruit is 

 ordinary and will do where we can't get bettei', but I think we can 

 get others more valuable. 



Mr. Latimer, of Kansas — I have the proceedings of the Georgia 

 State Society. In it a man says it has blighted there. 



Mr. Pearce, of Ohio — I have seen accounts of the KeiiFer blight- 

 ing. 



Mnj. Ragan, of Missouri — Though I am a fruiter of pears, I am 

 just going out of the business. But still, from what has been said, 

 I do not like to see this subject scoffed at. I feel like it is too late 

 in life for me to undertake it. The point I wish to make, which 

 has been touched upon, is in regard to location. Wa want pears. 

 It is our duty to trace out the locations where they will succeed, 

 either l)y accident or by searching for them. They will succeed 

 in other places as well as in Ohio. I made a mistake; my ground is 

 not suitable for pears, it makes too much growth. I can raise as 

 fine trees as grow, but when they get large they blight. 



Mr. Cadwallader, of Kansas — I feel interested in this subject. I 

 have found that most of the pears have not been a success. Some 

 fifteen years ago ray attention was called to two large pear trees, as 

 large as I ever saw. I inquired about them. I found they were 

 brought from Tennessee. They were brought as seedling sprouts. 

 Last year I went there again, and found them loaded with fruit. I 

 was told that they were sure to bear every year. Would we not 

 better encourage the planting of seedlings. Those trees are on thin 

 soil, and where they have not been cultivated ; and whether this is 

 the cause or whether it is because they are seedlings I do not know. 

 On account of the soil the roots of those trees can not go to water. 



Maj. Evans, of Missouri — 1 would like to ask if the gentleman 

 knows the (juality of the pears? 



