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growth is clean and luxuriant, bark smooth and free, 

 making shoots six feet high in a season, readily pro- 

 pagated from cuttings, and even budded the first 

 season. 



Every cutting, therefore, of that variety, should 

 be carefully planted, on which you may grow either 

 dwarf or standards, with this result that the sorts of 

 Pear worked thereon will come into bearing in two 

 or three years, and continue productive for many 

 years, say half a century, and be more iYQQfrom Wajlit 

 than if on the pear stock, which roots deep, descends 

 into the cold ground perpendicularly, predisposes the 

 tree to blight during summer, and if not blight, pro- 

 duces a redundancy of wood almost beyond practical 

 management, and not at all adapted for gardens. 

 Another point in favor of the quince stock I might 

 refer to, is the certainty of its growth after being re- 

 moved and conveyed to a distance, the many fibres 

 close to the bole of the tree rendering its growth 

 almost certain, at least, forty -nine out of ffty. The 

 Pear on its own stock makes few fibres, and is more 

 precarious in removal and carriage ; this is again par- 

 tially under control by frequent removals in the nur- 

 sery, when the trees are young, which checks their 

 growth of wood, produces early fruiting properties, 

 so that we hojye to live to see dwarf fruiting pears on 

 the jpear stoclc as eagerly sought for as those now on 

 the Angers Quince — you will please make a note of 

 this assertion." 



The following from Mr. IIovey, author of " Fruits 

 of America," will be of interest to pomologists: 

 " The cultivation of the Pear on the Quince is of such 



