20b .foiirndl of Agyirultiirc. Vivtoria. [10 Aimui., l!»l!i. 



of 15tli October, 1915, will long be reiiiembered as one of the most severe 

 frost visitations ever experienced in this State — the greater part of tlie 

 fruit crop, including apples, being destroyed. In many cases, how- 

 ever, the pear, even when gi-owing on low situations, resisted the frost 

 fairly well, and the fruit, though frosted and the pips destroyed., 

 developed and attained a very fair size. 



Plate Xo. 11 shows pears curiously distorted owing to the frost 

 referred to. 



In the specimen shown in plate Xo. 12 will be noticed distinct rings 

 of russet caused by frost, which is rather common after a severe frost, 

 and is known as frost-ring. 



Plate No. 11. — Pears, distorted and pipless, as the result of frost. 



Yields of Pear Trees. 



Owing to the natural liardiness of the pear tree and its resistance- 

 to adverse growing and fi'u it-setting conditions, one would naturally 

 expect the average crops over a number of seasons to he larger than 

 from other fruits of a less liardy nature. Such expectations are borne 

 out by the reported yield of pear trees compared with that of apple 

 trees during vears 1910-11 and 1913-14. Fn t1ie former season the 



