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I put two quarts of salt on the soil around each. Both bore full 
the next year. Then the next year I salted each alternate tree and 
have since used it more freely. 
Mr. Jordon. I have known pears to do well on White Thorn. 
Have found that grafting by splitting sometimes gives no beetle, 
while if cut a beetle is produced. 
Mr. Pearce. Iam inclined to think we shall yet raise pears. I 
know of a man who had 300 to 400 before the winter of 1872-3. In 
the spring nine-tenths of them were killed. From those that lived 
he reserved twelve on quince roots. They are now ten feet high 
and have never killed. The others he gave away. Those that 
got them say that they are also alive. Mr. Sias raises a few pears 
every year. He has the pear on a Juneberry and supported by a 
trellis. Have seen another tree twelve feet high and full of fruit. 
Mr. Harris. Wave grafted many pears on thorn, but only one 
tree lived long enough to bear much fruit. 
Mr. Jordon, Have had pear trees in a cooley for eight years 
which blossomed several years but had the blossoms killed by frost. 
In a similar location near by the Wealthy killed down. 
Mr. Elliot. Was agreeably surprised when I saw Mr. Jordon’s 
place last winter and remember saying I should plant pears on it. 
Mr. Harris. Believe we may grow pears after experiments in 
grafting on different stocks. 
Mr. Fuller. Before the winter of 1872-3 I had 300 pear grafts on 
Mountain Ash. Some of these are now a mixture of pear and 
Mountain Ash. But I have many fine pear trees now. One came 
through the hard winter. 
Mr. Underwood. Have grown pears on Mountain Ash success- 
fully. Think the Flemish Beauty as hardy as Fameuse apple. It 
has great recuperative power and those with any life at all recov- 
ered atter the hard winter. Don’t believe that it will be practicable 
to graft on Juneberry or Thorn. Don’t think it practicable on the 
apple either. Have set many grafts on apple without success. 
Mr, Dart. Don’t think pears will do much on Mountain Ash. 
I had fifty on Mountain Ash which did badly; while those on pear 
roots did pretty well. 
A partial report on articles on exhibition was read by Mr. Fuller 
and ordered to be filed for publication when completed. The report 
has not, however, come to hand. 
