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Quince and succeeding -upon it. The French call it 

 intcnncdianj <jraft in <j. 



'' In planting orchards, tlie same care and the same 

 digging is required for a standard as for a ciuince 

 stock, but how dilferent the result ? Ask Mr. IIovey, 

 and others around Boston, from which they derive 

 their largest profits. They all agree that tlie cpiince 

 root has paid the soil, the expenses, tree aiul all, long 

 before 2^ pear stock has shown any sign of bearing. 



" Below is, according to my own and my friends' 

 experience, a list of varieties which will do for the 

 nuirket, till new and as good varieties can be added. 

 We must consider that the introduction of new varie- 

 ties of fruit into the market is not an easy thing. 

 Those named below are also the best adapted to the 

 most of the States between thirty and forty degrees of 

 north latitude. 

 " I. — Varieties of Pears wnicn do well on tile pear stolk, or "when 



DOL'BLE "WORKED. 



" Tliose marked a do not succeed well on quince 

 stocks. Those marked h do bear as early and as well 

 as others on the Quince. They are arranged accord- 

 ing to their value for general cultivation, market pur- 

 poses, ttc : 



b. Bartlett— Sept. 



h. Madeleine — Aup;. 



a. Seckle, (sometimes does well on 



Quince.) 

 h. Beurre Clairp^eau — Oct., Xov. 

 a. Columbia — Nov. 

 a. Dix — Dec. 

 a. Doyenne Boussock — Sept. 



a, Lawrence (often good on Quince) 



— Xov., Dec. 

 a. Ileathcot— Sept. 

 a. Onondaga — Oct. 

 a. Kingses.-^ing — Sept. 

 a. Pratt— Sept. Oct. 

 — Philadelpliia— Sept. 

 h. BuUum— Sept., Oct. 



xVnd many others. The above are all (jood-looking 

 fruits, and of course will sell readily. 



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