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pie to raise pears, grapes, peaches, and all those good things. 

 There is a farm lying within about four miles from here., where, 

 a few years ago, the man who lived there set out a little pear 

 orchard. He is dead and gone, but the property has come 

 into the hands of his sons, and last year, they leased the whole 

 farm to a gentleman across the river, and they fixed the rent 

 of quite a large tract of land, — some of it pretty decent for 

 cultivation, and a great deal of it costing more to cultivate than 

 it is worth, — they fixed the rent of that land on the amount of 

 pears that they had obtained from that place last year. That 

 man paid his rent because he expected a great crop of pears 

 this year, and he had a large quantity, but not so much, per- 

 haps, as last year. I do not believe that farm could be let for 

 more than one-third what it is, if it were not for that orchard. 



Dr. Lortng. Are those standards, and how old ? 



Dr. Durfee. Yes, sir. I think they are all standards. I 

 should think they were seven or eight years old, and they are 

 growing finely. Some of them are twenty feet high. 



Question. What varieties ? 



Dr. Durfee. I don't know the varieties, but he raised a 

 great many varieties. 



Now, my friend asks what varieties of peach-trees I would 

 plant. I would get the white peach. I don't think the Craw- 

 fords fit to raise. I cannot raise good Crawford peaches under 

 cover ; it is impossible ; they are sour and bitter. But get the 

 " Early York " and you will get a first-rate peach. Get " George 

 the Fourth," and you will get the best peach that I ever grew. 

 The " President " is a most excellent fruit. The "Stump-the- 

 World " is a good peach. There are but four or five kinds 

 that I can think of that are worth raising ; that is, that I want 

 to raise. 



I was very glad to hear the remark that was made in regard 

 to putting into the borders of grapes large quantities of bones 

 and dead animals, and burying them so deep in the ground 

 that they will never be heard from afterwards, unless you dig 

 them up. I have seen the folly of this practice, and 1 know 

 that the roots of the grape will not go near where they are, 

 because I have seen it. As my friend (Dr. Loring) says, if you 

 want to enrich grape-vines, enrich them near the surface. I 

 will mention a singular fact in regard to grape-vines. We plant 



