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straight and vigorous stock. Then follows the Tyson, slow in coming 

 into bearing, and afterwards bearing too heavily and requiring thinning. 

 Clapp's Favorite ripens between Tyson and Bartlett, a good-sized, hand- 

 some pear, hardly first quality, and being liable to rot at the core, should 

 be gathered a week before softening. This quality is probably the chief 

 reason that it has rather declined in popularity of late years for market. 

 The Bartlett, the most popular of all pears, immediately follows, and ri- 

 pens at the North early in September, and is always good and never rots 

 at the core. Then comes the well known Seckel, the handsome and 

 vigorous Boussock, the valuable and productive Howell, the delicious 

 Sheldon (when well grown), unexcelled Bosc the uniformerly excellent 

 Anjou, the reliable Lawrence, and the Josephine de Malines, which ri- 

 peds at midwinter. The season of the later ones will vary in ripening 

 a month or two, with the mode of keeping. For dwarfs the Louise and 

 the Angouleme will not be omitted. — Country Gent. 



COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS. 



The subject of " Commercial Fruit Growing" was discussed at some 

 length by F. R. Palmer, at the Troy, Ohio, meeting, a practical horti- 

 culturist of Mansfield. Among the more important points elicited by 

 this discussion were the following : Where the soil and location are 

 favorable, and where a good market can be conveniently reached, the 

 growing of choice fruit for market is a paying industry, but the measure 

 of success attained will depend upon the practical knowledge and skill of 

 the operator. He must not only be able to make a judicious selection 

 of varieties adapted to his soil and climate and to the markets for which 

 they are grown, but he must understand and practice the proper modes 

 of culture, and also of gathering and marketing the fruit. 



A majority of the failures in fruit growing are made by farmers 

 who try to farm extensively at the same time. The time and attention 

 that should be given to the fruit is put upon the farm crops, and the 

 fruit fails through lack of care. Not one farmer in fifty knows how to 

 grow and market fruit '^o as to get the most money out of it. Success- 



