THE PEAB. 105* 



The growing of Pears of the first quality for market, ia such, 

 a way as to make it profitable, is attended with more difiiculty 

 than the profitable production of Apples, and will demand a 

 higher order of horticultural talent. Yet such is the demand for 

 finely grown Pears, that the early autumn varieties sell readily 

 in oui larger cities for from eight to fifteen dollars per barrel; 

 while the later sorts, which come in after the great flood of 

 autumn fruit has passed, command from twenty to thirty dollars 

 per barrel. But these prices are obtained only for well grown 

 fruit, fruit that can be uniformly grown only by a careful and 

 judicious cultivator, whose trees are never suffered to weaken 

 themselves with a superabundant crop, never over-fed with highly 

 nitrogenous fertilizers, and never starved upon a parsimonious 

 diet. No doubt the skilful cultivator of Pears for market will 

 be amply remunerated, but let the impatient and unreflecting 

 beware. 



Ananas d'Ete. — Summer Pine Apple. — This old pear from 

 Holland is growing in favor with cultivators in Ontario on ac- 

 count of the healthy and vigorous character of the tree and the 

 good quality of the fruit. In our climate it is by no means a 

 summer pear, as its name would seem to indicate, but ripens the 

 last of September, or more generally during the first ten days of 

 October. 



The fruit is above medium size, sometimes large, pear-shaped, 

 color pale yellow; flesh is melting, fine-grained, buttery, sweet 

 and high-flavored, quality "very good." 



Bartlett. — Williams' Bonchretien. — No pear has been more 

 widely disseminated or is more universally esteemed throughout 

 the Dominion than this variety, which is now about a century 

 old. It originated in Berkshire, England, and was propagated 

 by a Mr. Williams, of London, from which circumstance it received 

 the name of Williams' Bonchretien. On its first introduction to 

 America the name was lost, but a !Mr. Bartlett, residing near 

 Boston, disseminated it, and so it came to be known as the Bart- 

 lett Pear, by which latter name it is now better known all over 



