494 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



summer varieties are affected by the peach "When the trees are ten years old the re- 

 crop, ranging- lower when peaches are abund- ceipts should not be less than $400 per acre, 

 ant, than they do if peaches are scarce and and there will be a steady increase in the re- 

 hig-h. This of course will not influence fall turns, under proper management, until the 

 pears, and there is consequently less fluctu- trees have been planted fifteen or sixteen years, 

 ation in the prices of the latter varieties. when the receipts will be at least from $600 

 1866 1S67 1868 t° $800 per acre, and in many cases much 

 KINDS. PER BBL. PER BBL. PER BBL. larger. When choice pears command from 



f$$ $$$ $$$ $jo to $30 per barrel, as they have for the 



Summer Belle 68 S9 812 ^ . ^ ji- -i 



Bartlett 10 16 25 12 iS 3o 18 2545 past three or four years, and this with a 



Duchess d'Angoule- brisk market, it affords encouragement 



me 12 18 14 20 25 15 20 25 u t. ■ A u *• 14. • 4. 4. 1 



Beurre Bosc 14 18 1520 182030 enough to induce horticulturists to make 



Beurre Clairgeau.. 16 20 18 20 25 20 25 30 every effort to produce the best specimens 



Beurre Dial 22 if> 14 16 20 16 18 20 - ^, . . ^, ^ ^, 1 ^ j . .1 



Flemish Beauty.... 10 14 12 16 14 16 20 of the varieties that the market demands. 



Louise Bonne de Could anvthing be more misleading to an 



Jersey 12 14 20 14 16 20 14 18 20 ' - . -. a j 4. 



Virgalieu 12 18 2s 14 18 25 14 20 30 amateur or young fruit grower.-' And yet 



Seckel 14 16 25 i5 18 30 16 20 40 this book is still offered for sale as a book 



Lawrence 14 iS 16 22 c • . ^- c 1 « 1 



Pound... 6 10 8 10 10 12 20 of instruction for pear growers! At the 



Vicar of Winkfield . 8 14 10 14 18 10 1620 same time, anyone who is experienced knows 



"This list fully demonstrates to the that nowadays Bartletts do not bring an 



fruit grower this important fact, that average of over $4 per barrel, and very often 



the varieties most extensively cultivated only $2 ; and that Seckels, which are quoted 



have steadily advanced in price. In 1858 as high as $40 a barrel, can hardly find 



we sold Duchess tor $1.50 per basket, or buyers in Canada, owing to their small size. 

 S7.50 per barrel. Last year, we sold them Several of the varieties named in the list 



at $6 per basket, or $30 per barrel. lo we would now condemn entirely as not- 



1867 the same quality of fruit sold readily worth the space they occupy in the orchard; 



at $20 per barrel. That year the crop for example. Summer Belle, \'irgalieu, 



was an average one, except in a few lo- Pound and Vicar. 



calities. The day is past when a pear will sell 



"When a young orchard comes into bearing just because it is a pear, and, instead, the 



— say five years from the time of planting — day has come when buyers want only the 



the trees will produce from $50 to $75 per largest and finest pear of its season. These, 



acre. The trees at this stage require strict if packed as they should be to certain grades 



attention; some may be inclined to overbear, and sizes, will sell in any market, whether 



others to make too much wood. From the home or foreign, and sometimes a hungry 



former, a part of the fruit set should be re- market will pay large prices. For example, 



moved before it attains the size of a walnut. last year Duchess brought $2.50 per half 



If too much fruit is permitted to remain on bushel case in Glasgow, which in Canada 



young trees, it will take several years of would not bring over 50 cents. This year 



careful management to repay the damage they will not bring more than half that 



done. When they are making too much money in England, while our own home 



wood, and they are not inclined to produce markets will pay $1, and the grower will get 



fruit, a judicious method of summer pruning more money out of the latter than the former 



should be instituted to change the habits of market, 

 the tree. The Bartlett will always be our best sum- 



