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from disease or blemish entitle it to the highest rank. It is so 

 tardy in bearing upon the pear-stock, that it would be a misfortune 

 if it had proved unfitted for the Quince. It makes a firm union 

 and vigorous growth upon that stock, and bears eight or ten years 

 earlier than on pear-roots. 



Fig. 83. 



Col. "Wilder says, that he has trees of this variety on both 

 stocks, twenty feet in height, planted twenty years ; and that 



