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GARDENING. 



Mar. 75, 



Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett, Belle Lucra- 

 tive, Howell, Seekel, Sheldon, Anjou, 

 Lawrence and Josephine of Malines. 



The Clapp's Favorite is valued for its 

 early ripening, as well as tor its prolific 

 and constant crops. It requires gather- 

 ing about the 10th of August, and to be 

 placed away for a week or so. Then it is 

 a first-class, juicy fruit. If permitted to 

 remain ungathered until ripe they are of 

 but little use, the fruit rotting at the core. 

 Bartlett and Belle Lucrative are two 

 which permit of their fruit being used 

 gradually. Some may be gathered and 

 set a-way some weeks before the others, 

 and they will ripen perfectly. 



The large waxen lookingfruit of Howell 

 is attractive and of very good quality, 

 and it <oo can be gathered gradually 

 from the tree. Seekel, though of small 

 size, leads all the rest for flavor, and next 

 to it for excellence of flavor, comes the 

 Sheldon, in my opinion. Neither of these 

 two is beautiful looking, as so many of 

 inferior taste are. 



Both Anjou and Lawrence are early 

 winter pears here. Contrary to what 

 occurs in mam- places Anjou ripens before 

 the Lawrence in this vicinity. I have 

 known the whole crop to be gathered and 

 used before the Lawrence were ripe. The 

 latter kind hangs on until early Novem- 

 ber, being gathered only to escape freezing 

 weather. By the way, it is an excellent 

 quality of this variety that itsfruithangs 

 tenaciously to the tree, defying storms to 

 a much greater degree than the Anjou or 

 any other of the kinds named. Josephine 

 of Malines is a pear of good quality, and 

 a good keeper. 



There are many other sorts of pears 

 which have quite a reputation among 

 orchardists, but which I have not found 

 as good for home use as those named. 

 These are some of them: Flemish Beauty, 

 Kieffer, Louise Bonne, Tyson, Boussock, 

 Clairgeau, and Superfine. No doubt 

 location has something to do with this, 

 as some of them are very much praised. 

 The Tyson is placed in the second rate 

 list because of its tardiness of bearing. 

 Young trees will sometimes grow for ten 

 years without bearing a fruit. \ Bartlett 

 or a Clapp's Favorite will have given 

 some bushels bv that time. 



I have had in mind while writing stand- 

 ard pears, as being the more desirable in 

 the long run. But dwarfs give fruit 

 earlier, and if they are set below where 

 grafted when planted they root from the 

 pear in time and become standards and 

 more lasting than when reiving wholly 

 on the quince root on which they are 

 grafted. Joseph Meehan. 



Philadelphia. 



Miscellaneous. 



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 and used for the protection of more ten- 

 der plants. We make our sash do for 

 two frames. All our pansies, daisies, 

 Canterbury bells and such stock we un- 

 cover about the end of March and use the 

 sash on other frames. 



The lawn will now need attention in 

 the way of cleaning. We have just 

 finished top dressing all our lawns, using 

 three parts soil to one of wood ashes, 

 with a good sprinklin;; of fertilizer; the 

 rough part of this will be raked off just 

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