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and limb, large or small, turning- black, they are cut away and destroyed. 

 When a whole tree is lost, we put in another soon as possible. 



For home use and experimenting we plant many kinds ; but for 

 commercial purposes we have selected the following: 



First, the Bartlett bears every year, though it also has its full and 

 off seasons ; the tree adapts itself well to the mode of renewal, 



Keiffer, for shipping long distances, storing to ripen late, is the best 

 pear we have. 



Clarigeau is very large, fine form and color. 



The Duchess on the Quince seems to succeed everywhere; one of 

 the best in size and quality. 



Anjou, out East, an early winter pear, ripens with us from the 

 middle to the last of September. 



The Howell is large, smooth, finely colored and very fruitful. 



Bergamotte Cadette is one of our best pears, not known as well as 

 the others named; it is large to very large, firm; excellent flavor; car- 

 ries well ; trees healthy, of spreading habit. 



The Seckle we include in the list, though small, its high fame for 

 quality gives it ready sale. 



Flemish Beauty is one of the best pears we have. The trees bear 

 well but are so subject to blight. But we cannot afford to do without 

 them, so, in order to keep up a supply, we are forced to adhere to the 

 old adage, for every tree that is lost, plant two in its place, and by the 

 way this must be the motto for all fruit growers. 



THE PEAR. 



(Poister Brothers, Warrenton, Mo.) 



This is an old subject and nothing new to report. In other lines 

 and branches there is advancement and new remedies for diseases are 

 discovered, but it seems for pear blight there is no remedy, and it is a 

 vexed and diificiilt subject in horticulture. The knife and saw seem to 

 be the only remedy. Watching the trees from early spring till late in 

 the summer, cutting and sawing off all -affected limbs and branches and 

 at once burning same seems to be the only refuge. Warm, moist weather 

 is favorable for blight. Cool, dry weather is unfavorable. Most of 

 damage is in a month or two following bloom, but young trees may be 

 attacked at any time during the summer. Eighteen years ago we planted 

 four hundred pear trees and continued planting every year until we had 

 eighteen hundred trees. Eighty per cent, w^ere Keiffer ; the balance, other 

 varieties. If we had planted Keiffer only, we would have been much 

 better off, as seventy-five per cent, of Keift'er are still alive and bearing 

 heavy crops, and nearly all other varieties are dead from blight, except 



