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The result is, that in June or July the trees are again 

 in full bloom, and this time the fruit is allowed to set ; as 

 it ripens in about a year or a little less, a fine crop of sum- 

 mer oranges is produced, worth double or treble the ordi- 

 nary crop. 



Perseverance for three or four years will give the trees 

 thus treated a confirmed habit of blooming at the desired 

 time, and thus summer oranges are secured without fur- 

 ther trouble. 



PEARS ON QUINCE STOCK. 



Beware of these ; they are not suited for Florida's soil 

 or climate, for, as a rule, the quince itself is a failure over 

 fully three fourths of the State. Not only so, but the 

 Chinese sand pears, whose hybrids, the Le Conte, Kieifer, 

 and others we have mentioned in our foregoing pages, are 

 a failure upon quince stock. 



Mr. William Parry, of the Pomona Nurseries, Parry, 

 N. J., whose experience with these pears is probably 

 greater than that of any other person, is very emphatic 

 in his statement that the quince is poisonous to all and 

 every admixture of the Chinese pears ; the American Agri- 

 culturist also confirms this statement, which is undoubtedly 

 correct, and should be more widely known than it is. It 

 should also be noted as a fact, that if buds be taken from 

 a pear (Chinese) on quince stock and worked on a pear 

 stock, the trees raised therefrom will be stunted and sickly. 



Mr. Parry mentions an orchard of five thousand trees, 

 three thousand on pear stock the remainder on quince ; at 

 the end of the first year only one in a thousand of those 

 on pear stock needed replanting, while out of the two 

 thousand trees on quince two hundred had to be replaced ; 

 the next year as many more, and all that were left were 

 stunted and sickly. The same pears on pear stock, or on 

 their own roots, are strong and thrifty. 



