240 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



"Out, fruit go and gather, but not in the dew." 



And again, 



"Fruit gathered too timelie will taste of the wood, 

 Will shrink and be bitter and seldom proue good." 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF PEARS. 

 Summer and Early Autumn. 



Bartlett. The most popular of early pears, and where the cli- 

 mate suits it, perhaps deservedly so, for its combination of good 

 qualities ; but unfortunately for us, it is one of the tenderest. As 

 in other States south and west of this, so here, it has been more 

 extensively planted than any other variety, and its general failure 



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has done much to discourage all efforts towards pear culture. Oc- 

 casional and partial success has attended it in favorable localities 



