362 Landscape Gardening 



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THE PEAR 



Although the pear is not so largely grown or highly prized 

 as the apple, it is distinctly a home fruit and is easily grown. 

 The trees should be planted about 20 feet apart and succeed 

 best in a rather heavy soil, but will do fairly well on any 

 but a very thin soil if abundantly fertilized. The tree 

 grows in a regular pyramidal form and begins bearing earlier 

 than the apple. The treatment it requires as to prepara- 

 tion of tree for planting, the planting, and care are the same 

 as for the apple and need not be repeated here. 



To obtain fruit of the largest size and the best quality, 

 the trees should make a vigorous growth and the fruit 

 be thinned as directed for the apple. The fruit ripens 

 better, is of better color and quality, if picked before quite 

 ripe. The time for this work is indicated by the wormy 

 specimens changing color and becoming mellow. For home 

 use it is best to gather the fruit as it matures, each time pick- 

 ing the largest specimens while they are still hard. The 

 varieties suggested as likely to be most satisfactory are 

 Clapp, Bartlett, Sheldon, Bosc, Seckel, Hovey and Lawrence. 



THE PEACH 



The peach can be profitably grown only on high, rather 

 light, well-drained land. It sometimes succeeds when 

 planted on low land with a northern exposure if located near 

 the house, where the cellar wall gives perfect drainage and 

 the building affords some shelter from severe cold, but 

 generally unless on elevated land the blossom buds are 

 destroyed by severe cold in most northern sections during 

 the winter. While it may not be advisable to plant the 



