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I find the experience of the leading growers of the West 

 mainly conformed to my own. Some grow dwarfs, because 

 they are called for, but plant standards for themselves. 



This subject is by no means exhausted, but enough has been 

 said, perhaps, to direct the attention of planters, and to call 

 out the views of others that have had experience with the 

 pear, here at the West. 



The fallacy of the value of dwarf pears, like every other 

 fallacy, is very difficult to eradicate from the popular mind. 

 The more intelligent planters, however, are recognizing the 

 great su23eriority of standards. And the fact that pear trees, 

 on the quince root, may be bought to-day, in any of the large 

 Eastern nurseries, for one-half the price of those on pear roots, 

 is significant of the growing intelligence of fruit-growers, and 

 is our best angury for the future of this interest. 



