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is taken from the tree^ it never gains any more; it will be green and 

 never change that color. I know of no other fault than this and the 

 tendency to rot at the core. 



jMr. Galusha — I would like to raise Belle Lucrative to eat and 

 Bartlett to sell. 



Dr. Hull — I would combine both of them; I would take Belle 

 Lucrative to eat and also for market. It is a much better pear to 

 eat than the Bartlett, and if you are accustomed to send good fruit 

 and none other to market, they will pay you for them ; but if you 

 are not, then they discard your good brands. 



Mr. Hilliard — I think if we discard the Bartlett from the list, we 

 may as well hang up our fiddle and go home. 



Mr. Pierson — The Belle Lucrative with us colors up and becomes 

 quite yellow. It is a most wonderful pear, and bears as well as any 

 apple tree in our orchard. 



Beurre Bosc. — Dr. Hull — If I were called upon to mention the 

 best pears, I would say that Beurre Bosc was one of them, and 

 Beurre D'Anjou another. In my locality it is without fault. 



Mr. Douglas — One of the best in our locality. 



Mr. Woodward — It is one of the best in our locality. 



Mr. Brown — My idea has been that it was not quite so fruitful as 

 some others, but it is nearly as perfect as I can get them up. My 

 trees are nearly ten years old, and dwarfs at that. 



Beurhe Diel. — Dr. Hull — Shall we not be in favor of letting 

 that go ? I am in favor of it. 



Mr. Earle — The tree does not hold its leaves well, it does not ripen 

 well, and so far as I have seen, the fruit is very astringent, very poor, 

 sand cracks as badly as anything we have. 



Mr. Hull — That matter of shedding leaves is one that is very easy 

 to control. I will explain, to-morrow, a certain process that entirely 

 obviates the shedding of the leaves. 



Mr. Brown — With me, two years ago, it v^as remarkably fine. 

 The trees were loaded with fruit. I think they would average half 



