NOTES ON PEARS. 



duction of the quince stock, except in the small garden of the amateur. These 

 objections, together with a consideration of what kinds are decidedly valuable and 

 enduring on quince, and which the most, and which the least so, and other thoughts 

 germain to the topic, will be the subject of the next article, unless in your judgment, 

 Mr. Editor, what has already been written in the examination of this subject is so 

 much in advance of public sentiment, as to wake up more of a storm of opposition, 

 than should rest, even by implication, upon the shoulders of the Horticulturist. 



[On the contrary, the HorticuUurist professes to be a seeker after truth. If the 

 country has gone far enough, or too far in introducing the dwarf pear, it is time 

 we knew it. The Pomological Society of New York, in their report, agree in 

 the main with Dr. "Ward — the pear stock for the orchard — the dwarf for the 

 smaller garden. — Ed.] 



NOTES ON PEARS. 



BY J. K. ESHLEMAN, CHESTER CO., PA. 



As your very able contributors are giving us important instructions " When 

 and how to Plant," on " Planting and Pruning," and on " Cultivation," may we 

 not hope, in due time, to hear what to plant ? 



My mite of experience, if worthy the place, may be added to the common stock. 

 If such valuable information as is contained in the articles above alluded to, and 

 in numerous publications now before the public, had been easily accessible years 

 earlier, what an amount of labor and mortification might have been spared. But 

 the producis of teti years, without these to guide, have not been too dearly bought. 



The intention, at the outset, was to give a list, selected from one hundred varie- 

 ties fruited here, of " very good" pears. Most of these have fruited here twice, 

 thrice, or oftener, in sufficient quantity to test tolerably fairly. 



Every amateur will desire to possess that beautiful, very early, small variety, 

 Doyenne d'Ete, and also Madeleine, neither of which can enter my list of "very 

 good." Both will probably be superseded by Beurre Giffard. 



But to ray list, given in the order of ripening : Bloodgood, Dearborn's, Eliza- 

 beth (Man), Washington, Ott, Bostiezer, Hanna's, Henkel, Fondante de Malines, 

 Chancellor, Fulton, Camerling, Urbaniste, Kingsessing, Bufifum, Liberale, Capi- 

 aumont, Flemish Beauty — recently imported under the euphonious cognomen 

 Gagne t\ Heuse, Lawrence, Winter Nelis, Bleeker's Meadow, Passe Colmar, and 

 Glout Morceau. 



The list of " Best" is easily added : Tyson, Bartlett, St. Ghislain, and Seckel. 

 Almost worthy admission to tliis last list, are Washington, Ott, and Fondante de 

 Malines. 



Notwithstanding its position, if I were fruiting one hundred trees for profit, 

 three-fourths should be of Lawrence. 



imiiiKjloion, Chester Co., Pa., March 10. 



