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Pears to Cover the Season. 



1282. Sir, — ^I have about three-quarters of an 

 acre here, clay soil, which I intend to plant in 

 pears. I am planting because I do not like to see 

 bare land, and I have no intention of building on 

 it. I expect to derive much pleasure in growing 

 the fruit, and I desire to make it as profitable as I 

 can. I have done some farming and managed to 

 make the farm pay expenses, so I hope to do all 

 right in pears when I have found out what to 

 plant. I am intending to plant 24 feet apart, I 

 want the crop to drag through the whole pear 

 season, so that I will have pears to use and sell 

 from start to finish ; and, what is more, I want to 

 have the crop coming in so gradually that its care 

 will furnish me with occupation over a long season, 

 without amounting to a rush. There will be fifty 

 trees. What pears I do not use I could likely find 

 market for in the village, or at the canning factory; 

 and I would like you to advise me what kinds to 

 plant and how many of each. I want summer, 

 autumn and winter pears, and it strikes me I 

 should hot have many varieties. From reading 

 my journal and the reports of the fruit growers, 

 etc. , I begin to fear there is more difficulty ahead 

 of me than I at first thought. At home in Norfolk, 

 where we were farmers, we had Bartlett and 



Flemish Beauty pear trees standing in sod, but 

 never heard of blight, etc. We did not know there 

 were these enemies. 



Cayuga. T. A. Snyder. 



For such a collection, as is proposed by 

 our correspondent, chiefly for home uses, 

 we would recommend the following" as a 

 desirable list : — 



Summer — Doyenne d'Ete, Giffard, Wilder, 

 Clapp's Favorite, Bartlett. 



Autumn — Bose, Clairgeau, Sheldon. 



Winter — Lawrence, Josephine de Malines, 

 Easter Beurre. 



This list would cover the season, begin- 

 ning- with that delicious little dessert pear, 

 the Summer Doyenne, which is as pretty as 

 it is good, and ripens in July ; and ending 

 with the Easter Beurre, which makes up in 

 good quality what it lacks in appearance, 

 and may be held for market until March. 



