ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



vated in the same manner as the cherry. 

 Three excellent varieties are Dartmouth, 

 Large Red Siberian, and Hall's Imperial. 



Pears. The garden should contain at least 

 six pear trees. If well cared for, they will 

 bear fruit during a long lifetime. The early 

 kinds ripen in August and the late varieties 

 will keep well into the winter, so that pears 

 can be had from your own garden for 

 quite half the year. 



Not long ago a lady showed me in her 

 garden a pear tree thirteen years old, of the 

 Kieff er variety, that had never received any 

 particular care or attention beyond pruning; 

 yet it had always borne abundantly, and 

 this year yielded ten bushels of fine fruit. 



Pear trees will thrive on clayey soil and 

 require but little fertilizer. Stable manures, 

 nitrates and bone meal, all of which are 

 valuable for other fruits, tend to produce 

 pear blight, which declares itself by the 

 blackened condition of the leaves. The only 

 cure for this pear blight is in the removal 

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