EDITOR'S TABLE. 



DwAKF Pear Trees. — As, at the present time, there are many (some of them extraordinary) 

 accounts relative to dwarf pear trees — their produce and its market value — and as my experi- 

 ence in their cultivation does not accord with much that I read respecting them, I will, with 

 your permission, give your readers a four years' history of about seventy of them, premising that 

 they have been well taken care of and received all the kind attentions their most sanguine advo- 

 cates could desire in the Avay of annual manuriug, spring 2>i'uning, summer pinching, mulching, 

 <tc., (fee. 



Twelve Ducfi^ssr cV Angoulemc, fine, healthy trees, neai'ly six feet high, and branched almost to 

 the ground. They bloom bountifully every year, but as yet have produced but ten pears. 



Twentj^-two Louise Bonne de Jersey — healthy trees — have produced three pecks of fruit. 



Ten WJiite Doyenne — healthy trees — have produced two pecks of friiit. 



Ten Bartlett — thrifty trees — have produced three pecks of fruit. 



Ten Flemish Beauty. These trees are double worked, fine, and healtliy, but as yet have never 

 formed a blossom bud. 



Five Summer Fra>icreal. Trees, healthy, but no blossom buds. 



One Duchess d' Orleans — Jfever bloomed, but has now a few blossom buds. 



Now as to matter of profit, here is a little over two bushels of fruit, which, valued at say four 

 dollars per bushel, (no mean price) would be eight dollars as a credit against interest on first cost, 

 manure, and rent for four years, which, if the trees are valued at first cost of one dollar, each 

 three years old, would amount to a gross debit of $22.50, leaving a balance of $14.50 against the 

 trees, without any charge for attentions or blight deatlis. The latter, as yet, I have escaped. 



It might be urged that the account would have stood better if I had planted none but Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, Bartlett, and ^Vhlte Doyenne, which would be true as far as this account is con- 

 cerned ; but if all should plant only the most productive sorts, tlie price would soon be down 

 below the pi-ice here assumed, viz., four dollars per bushel. 



Again, it might be said that the trees are not yet in a full bearing state. But in answer to 

 that, I would reply, that if they do not do much better than they now do, they will have such 

 an arrearage against them as will take the term of their natural life to wipe off. 



These trees, from being, as Mr. PavERS says, so "come-at-able" that every bud and branch can 

 be watched so completely throughout all the stages of their growtli, will no doubt be a source 

 of much pleasure to the amateur ; but that they will ever be a source of much profit, I have 

 many doubts. J. Feazee. — Rochester, N. Y. 



"We think the interest account on the seventy trees is pretty large, but admitting it to be 

 correct, we think Mr. F. has no good reason to complain. Very few planters of dwarf trees 

 will expect the first four years product to balance the outlay ; indeed, if the trees were 

 ours, we should prefer to take our profits in growth instead of fruit, and we apprehend that 

 Mr. Frazer, if asked to sell his trees to-day, would ask a price that would induce the pur- 

 chaser to believe they had not been a very unprofitable investment. One thing is certain : 

 dwarf trees have no such fault as that of tardiness in bearing. The defects are of an 

 opposite nature, according to all our experience. 



Evergreen Trees. — In the embellishment of private gardens, as well as public grounds, the 

 evergreen trees should be planted. While the deciduous trees have lost their foliage, nature, as 

 far as trees are concerned, seems comparatively dead, and without the evergreens a barrenness 

 pervades the whole scene. Contrasting, therefore, in a great degree, and re-animating all around, 

 the beautiful Norway spruce, balsam fir, red and white cedars, and the different pines, keep alive 

 our love for trees during "winter time," and our hearts warm in admiration of the Author of all 

 who for all times and seasons has in great wisdom provided plants and trees in full life 

 gor, to adorn tliis beautiful earth. We have often been distances, and spent much time to 



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