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duce every year large crops of splendid fruit. Of the 

 six thus brought three thousand miles, live are still 

 living. 



Persons planting large pear trees will, without 

 doubt, obtain many advantages which they could not 

 expect from smaller ones ; yet these are entirely con- 

 ditional upon the treatment the trees have previously 

 received. 



To repeat, pear trees upon quince roots, of ten or 

 twelve years of age, may be removed with almost 

 perfect certainty of success. But to insure safety with 

 trees upon pear stocks, wdiose branches have not been 

 shortened-in, they should be either pyramids or half 

 standards, so that fibrous roots will have formed near 

 the stem ; or they must have been root-pruned, or 

 transplanted in the nursery. But in the case of stand- 

 ards, whose growth has been unchecked, roots as long 

 and numerous as the branches will have formed — which, 

 of course cannot be retained in transplanting. Such 

 trees can only be safely transplanted when root- 

 2:)runed the j^revious year, by digging a trench around 

 each, and cutting off all the roots which extend into 

 the trench. These trenches should be filled with good 

 soil, to induce the formation of fibrous roots. 



After much experience in planting large trees, I 

 am convinced that the pear is the only species of fruit- 

 tree capable of being readily transplanted at a large 

 size ; and that when the foregoing directions are com- 

 plied witli, the pear culturist may obtain an advance 

 in the fruiting of his orchard of five or six years. 



Instances of success in the planting and fruiting of 

 large trees are numerous. In the spring of 1856, 



