208 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Dearborn Seedling is a good pear also. In a warm soil 

 it is excellent with us. 



Mr. Ives. It is a very good pear. 



Mr. Dodge. Excellent with me — none better. 



Mr. Clement. Then there is the Bartlett. A little tender in 

 tree ; sometimes liable to freeze to death. 



A Member. How is the Bloodgood ? 



Mr. Clement. With me, one of the more hardy kinds. It 

 never has suffered by blight, like some others. I should say 

 that it is a good pear. 



Mr. Dodge. Why is not the Bloodgood cultivated, if it is so 

 good a pear ? 



Mr. Clement. It is not cultivated extensively. One reason 

 is this : It is not a very attractive pear in its appearance ; it is 

 a little too small, and the color is not attractive. It is early, 

 and does not keep long. The demand for the trees is limited, 

 and usually for private families. A man never buys more than 

 one or two simply for his own use. It is not so well adapted to 

 the market as others, because it is not showy enough. 



Mr. Dodge. Is the Madeleine worth cultivating ? 



Mr. Clement. It is earlier than the Rosticzer ; but if my 

 observation is worth anything, I would say it is a tree exceed- 

 ingly liable to blight, and the fruit liable both to break and rot. 



Mr. Ives. It is tender, and discarded almost entirely. 



Mr. Clement. It rusts upon the tree. It bears pretty well 

 sometimes, and then it is astringent. 



Mr. Ives. Sometimes astringent ; a great bearer ; not worth 

 cultivating. 



Mr. Clement. I sell a few every year — not many. No man 

 would care to have more than one or two of the Madeleine. 



Then, to come to something later, there is the Bartlett, which 

 cannot be discarded. No man would feel that he could do with- 

 out it, if he could get it. The Louise Bonne de Jersey is remark- 

 ably prolific and an early bearer. I think quite as good on the 

 quince root as on the pear ; I do not know that it is any better. 

 It is a good market pear, ripening in October, after the- Bartletts 

 are gone, and after the flush of fruit in September is over ; and 

 sometimes wo have had a great flush of fruit in that month. 

 The Louise Bonne de Jersey always sells well hero. It is large, 

 and makes a fine appearance. Then the Duchess is still later. 



