VARIETIES OF PEARS FOR WESTERN NEW YORK 1001 



handsome yellow with red cheek. Tree sprawling and rapid 

 grower; bears young, annually, and abundantly. This variety 

 takes blight more easily than any other and it will run through 

 the tree more quickly ; however, if blight is checked, the tree will 

 recover quickly all because the tree makes such a rapid growth. 

 It is a good variety for the grower to gamble on he may make 

 well and he may lose the whole orchard before it -comes to bearing. 

 On the whole it is a very profitable pear to grow and sell before 

 Bartletts. It is generally considered too soft for canning. 



BARTLETT 



Bartlett stands at the head of the list for amount of production 

 and demand, and generally for profit. It is a good bearer from 

 youth to old age, brings as good a price in the general market as 

 any, and is better known than any other variety so well that 

 it is in great demand by the general public as well as by the can- 

 ners. Usually, it does not require a great deal of thinning, al- 

 though this should receive attention. Bartlett is not so badly 

 infested by fungus of the fruit as are some other varieties. It is 

 liar vested at a time when we can procure plenty of extra help, 

 before apple picking and the hurry of fall work. It has one bad 

 trait the tendency to blight which is very serious. 



SECKEL 



The Seckel is very superior in quality and bears well after the 

 tree is mature, if in deep, fertile soil. It does not take blight very 

 readily and blight runs slowly through the tree. Tree is well 

 shaped and ornamental, but, on the other hand, is late in matur- 

 ing and coming into bearing. The Seckel is a small pear, and for 

 that reason cost of picking per bushel is double as much as the 

 larger varieties. It requires more fertilizer, more labor in thin- 

 ning, more spraying for fungi. There is very little, if any 

 demand for it by canneries, and it is not so well known as Bart- 

 lett. My experience is that Seckel on dwarf stock is more profit- 

 able than standard, as the fruit is larger and more easily picked, 

 and the tree comes into bearing much sooner. 



