THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



The very earl/est pear is the Doyenne 

 d'Ete, a small but delicious dessert variety, 

 the Seckel of its season, which is about the 

 last of July. 



The Chambers follows very closely, and 

 is, in our opinion, most promising for profit. 

 Some years ago we planted two trees in our 

 experimental plot, and these have proved 

 regular and abundant bearers. The fruit is 

 of medium size, yellow, with a pretty shad- 

 ing of red, and the flesh sweet, tender, and 

 ol fair quality. So far we do not know that 

 it has a place in Canadian pear orchards, for 

 no one seems to be acquainted with it. it 

 is of American origin, having been brought 

 from Maryland to Kentucky by Judge 

 Chambers, where it was counted very profit- 

 able as a market variety. 



Then about the middle of August comes 

 Giflfard, a French pear of most agreeable 

 flavor and white melting flesh. On our 

 deep rich sandy loam at Maplehurst this 

 pear grows much above medium size, and it.> 

 markings of red on yellow ground make it a 

 very attractive pear in the market basket. 

 Mr. M. Pettit, of Winona, makes it one of 

 his principal commercial varieties. 



Clapp's Favorite follows toward the end 

 of August. A large, beautiful pear, yellow, 

 with rich markings of fawn and crimson, 

 and excellent in quality, if gathered before it 

 becomes mealy. It should not be omitted 

 in planting for the home market. 



Of the well known favorite, the Bartlett, 

 we need scarcely speak. It comes next ^n 

 order, covering the season from the end of 

 August to the middle of September, and it 

 is recognized as our leading market variety ; 



but it is a standard tree and does not suc- 

 ceed so well as a dwarf. 



Louise follows in the end of September, 

 a beautiful pear when grown in rich soil. It 

 is large, pale green, with a brownish red 

 cheek, and of very good quality. This and 

 the Duchess, which is an October pear of 

 very large size, greenish yellow in color, and 

 of excellent quality, about complete the usual 

 list of profitable dwarf pears for our Cana- 

 dian markets. 



Of late, however, our attention has been 

 called to two exceptionally fine varieties of 

 dwarf pears in our experimental plot at 

 Grimsby, viz., Hoosic, a large beautiful yel- 

 low pear, of rich, aromatic flavor, and very 

 good quality, ripening in October ; and PiT- 

 MASTON^ which we show in our frontispiece, 

 and which is described in report of our fruit 

 stations for 1902. It is an English pear, 

 raised at Pitmaston, England, where it was 

 called Pitmaston Duchesse d'Angouleme, a 

 name certainly clumsy enough to bring it ill 

 favor, no matter how great its excellence. 

 Its great size surprised us last autumn, and 

 it appeared to us freer from knots and to 

 grow more regular in form than the Duch- 

 ess. The tree, too, is productive, and a fine 

 vigorous grower. It is perhaps too soon yet 

 for us to recommend this variety as superior 

 to the Duchess for the dwarf pear orchard, 

 but we are greatly pleased with it so far, and 

 believe it would be one of our best export 

 varieties. Possibly for our home markets 

 its green color may count against it. It is 

 later than the Duchess, keeping well into 

 November. 



