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too much time to examine all of them, we will take 

 one walk as an example. How delighted Mr. S. must 

 be to see 220 pear trees, 110 on each side, loaded with 

 their luscious fruit, only eight or nine years planted, 

 and all independently on the quince root. The pro- 

 duct of those trees, in 1855, was twenty barrels — in 

 1856, twenty-five barrels. The highest price obtained 

 was twenty dollars per barrel, the lowest eight dollars. 

 Then we can call on Mr. Stickney, and look at his 

 ' dwarf pear trees. We shall see some magnificent 

 specimens of Urhanistes and Louise Bonne de Jerseys. 

 The crop of the latter he sold the last season at ten 

 dollars per bushel. Then we will go to Mr. Man- 

 ning's, who has some pear trees on the Quince of very 

 large size, being from thirty to forty years old, and 

 which ' still live,' and produce annual crops. Then 

 we will pursue our journey on, and call on Mr. Cabot, 

 the President of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, Messrs. Bacon, Downek, Eichakdson, John- 

 son, and others, who have splendid collections of 

 ' dwarfs pear trees which have been ^ jplanted ten 

 years.'' " 



Mr. R. BmsT, of Philadelphia, one of the most 

 candid and reliable men, has published the following 

 on 



DWARF TEAES. 



" This term has led to the impression that all trees 

 are dwarfs that are grafted on the quince stock ; we 

 do not incline to this term, from the fact that we cul- 

 tivated dwarf pears before we knew of the eflects of 

 the Pear on the Quince, and also from the fact that we 

 now have very fine standard trees, with stems six and 



