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can market from forty-year-old trees, one bushel in 

 three. 



Of the position for a cherry orchard, and of its 

 likings in the way of soil and climate, nothing better 

 can be said, than Palladius wrote fourteen centuries 

 ago : &quot; Cerasus amat cadi statum frigidum^ solum, 

 vero positionis humectce. In tepidis regionibus parva 

 movenit. Calidum non potest sustinere. Montana, 

 vel in cottibus constituta regione Icetatur&quot; * which 

 means that cherries want a cool air and moist land. 

 Heat hurts them, and makes them small, and they 

 delight in a hilly country. 



The Pears. 



rTTHE condition of the pears was far worse than 

 JL that of either cherries or apples. Had they 

 been seedlings of the native fruit, they would have 

 shown more stalwart size, and better promise from 

 good treatment. There was, I remember, a long 

 weakly row of the Madeleine, shrouded in lichens, 

 and with their lank, frail limbs ah 1 tipped with dead 

 wood. It is an enticing fruit, by reason of its early 

 ripening, and its pleasant sprightly flavor; but ita 

 persistent inclination to rot at the core, in most soils, 

 makes it a very unprofitable one. I forthwith cui 



* Lib. xi.. Tit. 12. 



