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The effect of double grafting, says Lindley, " is 

 similar to ringing the branches, the obstruction that 

 the sap meets with, in passing through the two 

 places of union, would be tantamount to the limited 

 supply of sap permitted to ascend where a portion 

 of the bark is removed." The quince stock brings 

 the pear into early fruiting, and some varieties are 

 larger upon this stock ; still, where a permanent or- 

 chard is wanted, we should recommend the natural, 

 or wilding pear. P^ars worked upon the white thorn, 

 are said to do better where the soil is a strong clay, 

 than upon the quince. Pears have been grown 

 in Europe upon the mountain ash. We budded 

 twelve small trees of this sort with the Bartlett, and 

 Seckel, in the fall of 1840. A shoot of the ash was 

 permitted to grow in connection with the pear, for 

 the first season. In the spring of the following year, 

 the first shoot (the ash) was then cut off close to the 

 main stem. These trees have made quite as good a 

 growth as upon pear stocks. 



The distance at which pear trees should be set in 

 the orchard or garden, depends in some measure 

 upon the soil and aspect ; but thirty feet is about the 

 maximum distance in the best soils, and from eight 

 to ten feet, when grown upon the quince or thorn. 

 Trees engrafted or budded upon the quince, should 

 be done as near the root as possible. This budding, 

 which we prefer to grafting, is performed when the 

 bark will separate entirely from the wood, which, in 

 this latitude, takes place in August, and sometimes 

 into September. The following spring, when the 

 bud is developing, cut off the stock to within two 



