Vlll COiSTTK^TB. 



FART V. 



'runing. — Advantages of Pyramidal Shape — Approacli Graftiug — 

 Pruning to a Bud — Ilcnewing the Wood of old Dwarfs — Summer 

 .Pinching — Fruit Spurs, and Treatment — Foims of Training — Rules 

 '^r Pruning — Root Pruning. 



PART VI. 



.^ASES OF THE Pkar. — Winter or Frozen-Sap Blight — Signs of the 

 Disease — Insect-Blight — Leaf-Blight. 



P A R T V I I . 



Insects Injurious to the Pear. — Seoljtus pyri — Scale Insect — The 

 Pear Slug — Caterpillar, Canker, Worm, &c. — Means of destroying. 



P A R T V I I I . 



....lETiES. — Conditions which affect the Quality of Fruit — Terms 

 relating to Quality— Qualities required for Market Cultivation — Vari- 

 eties for Market Cultivation to be grown on Pear Stocks — Yarieties 

 that may be grown on the Quince. 



PART IX. 



Gathering, Marketing, and Fruit-Rooms. — Soils as affecting Quality 

 of Pears — Thinning Fruit — Gathering — Marketing Pears — Coloring 

 and Ripening of Summer and Autumn Pears — Ripening of Winter 

 Pears — Fruit Rooms — Mr. Schooley's Plan of Fruit-Room — Cata- 

 logue of Native Varieties — Catalogue of Foreign Varieties and 

 Synonyms. 



