PE All C U L T U li E. 



iktroductio:n". 



While revolution and conr[Ticst were disturbing the 

 equilibrium of tlie political world, during the last 

 twenty years, bringing dread and terror in their san- 

 guinary train, another revolution was progressing, 

 more enduring — as it was productive of happiness, 

 instead of misery. 



This was, the revolution in the culture and produc- 

 tion of everything which the generous earth yields to 

 man's cultivation ; but more particularly manifested 

 in the propagation and perfection of fruits. 



Our fathers required tlie whole of their long lives 

 to eat of the fruit of the tree they planted. But by 

 the new arboriculture, the youth may pluck fruit 

 from the tree he })lanted when a child. 



In none of the fruits is this peaceful revolution so 

 striking as in the culture of the Pear. From the long 

 period of twenty or tliirty years required for the fruit- 

 ing of the tree, we have deducted more than four- 

 iit'ths, and reduced the time to three or four. 



The introduction of the French method of propa- 

 gation upon the Quince stock has given such an 



