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both drawf and standard trees, and my success with this lot of 

 trees has been satisfactory, and as a plate of Anjou pears from 

 Glenview Farm took a gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition, I 

 feel that my experiments along this line have proved that the 

 prairie home need not be without this delicious fruit. But re- 

 member that whatever I may say in this paper is but the ideas 

 obtained from limited experiences and I would hardly dare at- 

 tempt to say anything along this line, did I not know that there 

 are a score of fruit growers with a vastly wider knowledge of 

 this subject who are present and whom I invite to allow no 

 wrong impressions to be taken away from this meeting by 

 listeners. 



WHAT TREES TO PLANT. 



The season for pears begins in August and during the past 

 season we enjoyed the pear from about the middle of that month 

 until Christmas day, when we ate the last of the Anjous. And 

 now we are going to plant some winter varieties so that the sea- 

 son will be farther prolonged. 



Wilder Early is a medium sized greenish yellow pear that 

 ripens before the middle of August, and is nice looking and fine 

 eating, our trees of this variety are small but have borne two 

 light crops. Bartlett then follows the first of September and if 

 you only have room for one pear plant a Bartlett, for it is sim- 

 ply perfection in what a fine pear should be, fine in shape, fine 

 in color, fine in texture and above all fine in flavor. 



Then comes the Idaho, and this is a very fair sort of pear, a 

 heavy bearer of nice large fruit that is fine for household pur- 

 poses and not so early as to strike the busy season of canning 

 and preserving. We had a surplus of this pear this season and 

 besides selling some, we had a nice supply that lasted all through 

 November. If you plant pears, pears to eat, pears to can and 

 preserve, pears for the children to carry to school, and pears to 

 sell, then plant a few trees of the Idahos. 



They wiU not be so good in quality as the Bartletts, but you 

 w411 have pears and plenty of them, in fact the Idaho is the Ben 

 Davis of the pear family, a good honest everyday sort of 

 a pear. 



