NOTES ON SUMMER PEARS. 



jP^UR experimental plot of dwarf pears 

 consists of over fifty varieties, and 

 we had hoped for a splendid as- 

 sortment of samples for our report, 

 but, unfortunately, the same condition which 

 blig-hted our hopes as commercial fruit 

 growers, also swept away our hopes of a 

 grand collection of varieties for study and 

 for exhibition purposes. 



The first pear to ripen with us in the 

 season of 1901 was Summer Doyenne about 

 July 30. The fruit was in clusters, very 

 small, too small for market, but of delicious 

 quality for dessert. The trees are not as 

 thrifty as Brandywine or Wilder. The last 

 picking" was August 12th. 



The Chambers closely followed the 

 Summer Doyenne, ripening about the 5th 

 of August. The trees are heavily loaded, 

 and the fine size of this pear makes it the 

 most promising variety of its season for 



market. The tree is vigorous and healthy 

 and, so far, has not shown any tendency 

 to blight. The last picking was August 

 2otb. 



The Giffard closely followed Chambers in 

 season of ripening, coming in this year, 

 which is unusually late, about August loth. 

 It yielded a good crop, and the quality is 

 so good and its appearance so pleasing, 

 that it is the most largely planted for market 

 in the Niagara district of any early varie1:y. 



Osband's Summer ripened about August 

 loth, and is a variety over much planted ; 

 this year the trees were heavily loaded, but 

 very "small, especially on the older trees. 

 We do not recommend the planting of this 

 variety now that finer ones of the same 

 season have come in. 



Lawson and Andres des Portes ripened 

 about August 12th, on dwarf trees, but both 

 are rendered worthless bv a fault in com- 



Fic. 2i6g. Ansault, 



