In the same year I planted twenty Louise Bonne of Jersey on quince, all of wliich 

 are, as to tliriftiucss of fjrowth, symmetry of proportion, healthfulness of aspect, 

 and ])roductiveness of habit, all that could be desired. These stand contiguous 

 to the failing Bnrtletts on quince — indeed all the above arc on the same plat of 

 ground, and the physical condition of the soil, as far as the eye can judge of it, 

 being ^ iniilar. 



In 1851 I jilanted twenty Louise Bonne on quince on another field. Great 

 care was taken in the preparation of the soil; all the I'equisite conditions were 

 secured in planting, for producing healthy, rapid growing trees, and yet to this 

 day their truly dwarf appearance is everything else but an object of attraction to 

 a lover of trees; have not borne in the aggregate a peck of fruit, while those 

 planted two years previously on another field, have yielded over a half bushel a 

 piece. Some have died — others are in the process — and all might, without regret 

 at their loss. The cause is involved in mystery, unless it is to be found in the fact 

 that the subsoil is a gravelly loam and shale, not as congenial to the quince as 

 the more retentive clay substratum. One hundred Bartletts on the pear stock planted 

 at the same time, occupy an adjoining row, and are making most satisfactory pro- 

 gress in the world, as well as doing the work for which they were planted. 



Contiguous to these Bartletts are two rows of Onondagas, one on the quince, 

 and one on the pear stock ; those on the native stock are vigorous growing trees, 

 forming fine heads, and commencing to bear fruit, while those on the quince are 

 small, stunted stocks, irregular in their growth, and have borne but here and 

 there a solitary pear. All the above described trees were obtained from the late 

 James Wilson, of Albany, and have enjoyed the same culture with the previously 

 named one hundred Duchess D'Angoulcme on quince obtained fron Wm. Reid, of 

 Elizabethtown, which in their thrift and productiveness have far exceeded all ex- 

 pectation. The better to elucidate the subject, the reader will excuse us for 

 referring to some comments in a late number of the Country Gentleman, on a 

 previous article, in which it is supposed I committed an error of cultivation, in 

 giving to both trees, those on pear and quince, equal culture. My answer to the 

 esteemed reviewer is, that the data given him does not warrant the conclusion to 

 which he very naturally arrived. It is true, I found my soil " emphatically a worn 

 out one." But liberal draughts have been made upon a neighboring slavgJder 

 house yard, from which some hundreds of loads of the richest nitrogenized manure 

 have been obtained, of which, and other appropriate manure previously described, 

 the dwarf trees have annually had a liberal quantity forked in before mulching, 

 which, together with the detritus of the mulch, may be considered fair treatment 

 of the dwarf trees. If this is better treatment than the pear stocks are in the 

 habit of receiving, an error in this direction should not be used as an argument to 

 the disparagement of the dwarf. No I the failures above described of some varie- 

 ties, that ordinarily do well on the quince, and that in other portions on my own 

 farm have succeeded to admiration, we shall be able, we think, satisfactorily to 

 account for, and will constitute some of our objections against the general 



