CA, YET ALMOST UNKNOWN TO HORTICULTURISTS 



ig-cultivated European fruits. The fruits from these desirable trees are as much better than the common 

 uch inferior to even the crabapples we know today. The pear is an equally great improvement onitsances- 

 ;ic improvement and yet produces such fruit as that shown, natural size, above. Is it not reasonable to 

 inctly superior fruit? This association beheves so and has been able, through the generosity of one ot its 

 will propagate these good strains by grafting. These best fruits are not only large and meaty, Jut have a 

 .aw aroma, but not to an excessive degree; eaten with sugar and cream they offer one of the richest disnes 

 iqualities of the fruit, and lessen its defects, reducing the number and size of the seeds, for instance, it is 

 eported which weighed a pound— z. e., a third as much again as the above, although the past summer seems 

 lits like the above, regularly ev&vy year, beginning three or four years after it is set out. Fhotograph by 

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