FRUITS 



of the affected branch at once when the 

 trouble appears. Branches should always be 

 sawed from a tree, never chopped, and the 

 surface where the limb has been sawed off 

 should be given, immediately, a coat of thick 

 paint. A little wood ashes and some super- 

 phosphate of lime may be dug into the 

 ground around pear trees in the Spring, 

 and will give sufficient stimulus. Whenever 

 wood ashes are used, do not let them come 

 in contact with the trunk of the tree, lest 

 they burn the wood. 



There are two varieties of pears, standard 

 and dwarf. The former should be planted 

 twenty feet apart; the dwarf varieties ten 

 feet. Dwarf pears are generally grafted 

 on quince roots, and, like all grafted stock, 

 should be planted deeply, the graft being 

 set quite four inches below the top of the 

 ground. The trees should be examined care- 

 fully in the Spring for borers, and the soil 

 over the roots kept loose and free from 

 weeds and grass. 



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