CULTIVATION OF PEARS ON THE QUINCE. 



and partial movement of some limb has developed a new beauty. Grace is beauty in mo 

 tion, and the motion of animals, as well as of man, is constantly revealing new beauties 

 to the eye of the delighted artist. 



Thus is the ideal generated, nothwithstanding the fact that natural beauty of form is 

 dependant on fixed and determinate scientific principles, which are alike applicable to all 

 the arts of design, and which it is the duty of the artist to investigate and study. It is a 

 fact that, by the application of certain rules of proportion, beauty of form is produced in 

 each art, and that the beauty of the face and figure of the Apollo is governed by precisely 

 the same principles that reign in the temples of the Acropolis. This is a truth, howev- 

 er, that does not, what some writers have supposed, set aside the theory of the ideal. It 

 is but a dead beauty that can be produced by rule. Expression is its soul and life, and 

 this cannot be given by rule. We may point out the more prominent effect of the various 

 passions upon the human countenance ; but to communicate to marble the light, the glow, 

 the shade of thought, the reflection of the soul on the human face, is the work of genius. 

 The province not of rule, but of intuitive feeling. It is as true in art as in religion, that 

 the letter killeth, the spirit giveth life. 



CULTIVATION OF PEARS ON THE QUINCE. 



BY S. B. PARSONS, FLUSHING, L. I. 



There are few modes of culture that have made more rapid progress in the United 

 States, than that of the pear upon the quince stock. Ten years ago these dwarf 

 pears, were found in very few gardens, and then only as specimens valuable for their no- 

 velty. They were even, until a very few years since, esteemed temporary in their charac- 

 ter, and were never planted in a permanent orchard. While this opinion may be to a cer- 

 tain extent true, or rather, while we have no evidence to controvert its truth, and while 

 the pear on its own root, must always have the preference in a permanent orchard, yet 

 those on quince may always advantageously have a place in every orchard, and may be 

 profitably cultivated for market fruit. That this opinion is becoming more prevalent, is 

 evinced by the large sales of pears on quince that are made annually, in various parts of 

 the country. To ensure success, they require very different treatment from those on their 

 own root, and as a few years experience may be of value to some who are about planting, 

 I will briefly relate the course that I have pursued with satisfactory results. 



Some few years ago, becoming convinced that the profits of the nursery business could 

 not be relied upon, I decided, with our friend Rivers, to cast out another anchor to wind- 

 ward. I prepared at first only four acres, intending with these to test the experiment, 

 and then, if successful, to plant my whole farm. 



Although much fruit has not yet made its appearance, the fruit buds promise me so 

 abundant a crop another year, as almost to warrant me in planting to a very large extent. 



The field I selected was an old pasture ground, with light loamy soil, but not inclining 

 to sand, and a subsoil of hard-pan. This I planted with corn until the ground was well 

 mellowed, and then put upon it two sloop loads, or 3,000 bushels of stable manure, worth 

 on the ground, $175. 



The orchard was then planted with poars on their own root, twenty feet apart. 

 ecu these were planted pears on quince, ten feet apart, each row being thus ten 

 and the trees in each ten feet. Each alternate row is thus all pears on quin 



