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pmned, nail or tie the branches or shoots to the wall or trellis. If 

 afterwards, in consequence of either pruning out improper or decayed 

 wood, or of former iiisufTicient training", there are any material vacui- 

 ties or irrogiilarities in the arrangement, unnail the misplaced and con- 

 tiguous branches, and lay them in order. 



An acquaintance of mine, by correspondence, informs me that his 

 mode of training the Pear-tree is as follows : — " A young Pear-stock, 

 which had two lateral branches upon each side, and was about six 

 feet high, was planted against a wall early in the spring ; and it was 

 grafted in each of its lateral branches, two of which sprang out of the 

 stem, about four feet from the ground, and the others at the summit in 

 the following year. The shoots these grafts produced were about a 

 foot long, were trained downwards, the undermost nearly perpendicu- 

 lar, and the uppermost just below the horizontal line, placing them at 

 such distances diat the leaves did not at all shade those of another. — 

 In die next year the same mode of training was continued, and the 

 year following I obtained an abundant crop of fruit." 



Insects, Diseases, 8fc. The Pear-tree is liable to the attacks of 

 the same insects as the apple-tree, and the fruit of the summer kinds, 

 when ripe, is liable to be eaten by birds, wasps, &c., which must be 

 kept off by shooting and hanging botUes of water and other preven- 

 tives. For odier points of culture, gathering and storing, see the apple. 



Medical Properties and Uses. See Vol. I. p. 92 — Pyrus specta- 

 bilis. 



