CHAPTER XXIV, 



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The pear is arranged by Linnaeus with the apple and 

 quince, under the fourth section of his twelfth class : 

 Icosandria Pentagyma. It will take on the quince 

 either by inoculation or ingrafting: the former mode, 

 being performed above ground, will produce dwarf 

 trees ; the latter mode, under ground, in the root, will, 

 in some varieties, improve the pear; in all, it will form 

 a strong vigorous tree. All the pear trees I have im- 

 ported from France have been treated in this man- 

 ner on the apple, it produces a deteriorated fruit, ex- 

 cept in a few kinds, which succeed tolerably when 

 grafted in the root, and planted so deep in the earth, 

 as to permit shoots from that part of the stock growing 

 under the surface of the ground. 



Whether the climate of the United States is so 

 well adapted to the cultivation of the pear as the ap- 



