132 THE PEAE UPON THE QUINCE STOCK- 



"Louise Bonne de Jersey, Yicar of Winkfield, 

 Ducliesse d'Angouleme, Glout Morceau, Passe Colmar, 

 Urbaniste, Belle et Bonne, Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre 

 Diel, Easter Beurre, Beurre d'Amalis." 



The following, from the same gentleman, in answer 

 to the published skepticism of a cultivator regarding 

 the permanency of the quince stock, effectually dis- 

 poses of his objections : " I have, in my grounds, 

 many primitive pear trees from ten to seventeen feet in 

 height, with trunks twenty-seven inches in circumfer- 

 ence, and branching at the base from ten to twelve feet ; 

 hundreds of these trees are from twelve to fifteen 

 years of age — they have borne regular crops from the 

 third or fourth year after planting, and in some 

 instances I have gathered from the aforesaid trees, 

 ' not five or six beautiful pears,' only^ but from one 

 bushel to one barrel per tree. I do further aver, 

 that these trees were originally upon the quince 

 stock — that some of them remain in that condition 

 now, but that most of them have rooted from the 

 pear stock. 



" That there may be no misunderstanding of terms, 

 let it be remembered, that when I speak of dwarf 

 pear trees, a term which I did not use in the quota- 

 tion cited, it is in contradistinction to those which are 

 on the pear root ; for w^e of Massachusetts do not 

 allow pear trees, even those on the Quince, to remain 

 dwarfs or ' monkeys.' I^o, no, Mr. Stoms, we do not 

 only make our pear trees grow, even on the Quince^ 

 into beautiful, large pyramids, but we make them 

 bear five to seven years earlier on the quince than 

 they would on the pear stock. And, as to planting- 



