DUCHESS AND TYSON PEAKS. 



ened in to form a pyramid toward the 

 top. The dwarf pear needs very close 

 cutting back every spring, and if one- 

 half to two-thirds of all young shoots be 

 cut off at that time it is not too much. 

 Our English friends understand this art 

 of cutting back to perfection, and tluir 



Fig. lOTG— Tyson Pear. 

 trees are models to us in this regard. 



As a rule the dwarf pear is rather in- 

 tended for the garden of the amateur 

 than for the commercial orchard ; it 

 seldom lives more than twenty years and 

 it dies about the age at which a standard 

 is reaching its best days. 



The Tyson pear tree on the other 

 hand is almost always grown as a 

 standard We have some immense 

 trees of this variety at " Maplehurst," 

 some thirty years planted, and they ex- 

 ceed others of the same age in size and 

 vigor, not even excepting the Buffam. 

 It has the merit of never suffering 

 from blight, so far as we are acquaint- 

 ed with it, it is also a very healthy 

 grower, but rather late in bearing 

 fruit. The fruit is medium size, good 

 quality, but not very attractive in ap- 

 pearance, and therefore it brings a 

 very, ordinary price in the market. 

 It ripens about the ist of September. 

 The tree originated in Pennsylvania. 



NKW PORTABLE STEP LADDER. 



^\'I;R\' new patfiit that helps to 

 lighten labor, and facilitate the 

 [profitable [)ursuit of any enter- 

 prise, deserves encouragement, 

 and, therefore, we do not hesitate to gi\e 

 place to an engra\ing showing this ladder 

 as it appears when set up. Mr. Harvey- 

 Bowman, of Forgy, Ohio, is the inventor, 

 and E. F. I^indis, Model CitS', N. V., 

 the introducer of it, and it has been 

 recently patented in both the United 

 States and Canada. We find the ladder 

 very easy to handle, and it can be 

 wheeled with ease from place to ]jlace, 

 being little heavier than an ordinary 

 wheel-barrow. It is always in sha[)e. 

 and one can carry along the half filled 

 ba.sket from tree to tree, thus saving 

 much time. The ladder is strongly 

 built, the wheels are of malleable iron. 



and there appears nothing to go out of 



order. 



