ON PRESERVING PEARS. 



years. Summer fruit, those particulair^which 

 ripen upon the tree, require to be carefully gathered 

 and placed in a well-ventilated and cool room. 

 The autumn and winter fruit are preserved with 

 more difficulty. It has been generally admitted that 

 our winter sorts should remain upon the trees as 

 long as possible, requiring all the ripening our 

 climate will afford, which is undoubtedly the case. 

 It has been recently suggested that our winter table 

 pears should be gathered earlier than we have 

 heretofore done it, from the fact that many varieties 

 which were gathered the past season of 1843, in 

 October, ripened better than those of the same 

 kinds left upon the trees a month later. We found 

 such to be the case with the " Lewis," and also 

 with the " Bleeker's Meadow." The secret, we 

 apprehend, is, however, not so much in their being 

 thus early gathered, but that they were kept in a 

 uniformly warmer temperature. The remarks of 

 T. A. Knight, the most practical pomologist of 

 modern times, we think rational. He says, " In 

 order to ripen our fine pears, they should be placed 

 in a dry and warm atmosphere." 



A writer, (Mr. Walker,) in the January number 

 of Hovey's excellent Magazine, writes : " The 

 specimens (pears) which were matured in a close 

 desk, the temperature of the room being kept from 

 sixty to seventy degrees of heat during the day, and 

 fifty to fifty-five during the night, were all very 

 much superior to those which matured in a room of 

 lower temperature. 



