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THE PEESIDENT: It seems to* narrow down to the 

 same thing that most questions do, depends on who is man- 

 aging it. 



MR. BROWNE : It does. 



THE PRESIDENT: Now we come to our other subject 

 of the afternoon. I think the next subject is a very timely 

 one. It has been true, undoubtedly, that there has perhaps 

 been over-enthusiam on the apple to the exclusion of a great 

 many other fruits, and particularly, it seems to me, at this 

 end of the State to the exclusion of the pear. If I were in a 

 pear section it seems to me I should feel there was a fine 

 opening for taking that up, because there is so little interest 

 in it, so few being planted at the present time. I told you 

 this morning we had on our program men who had done 

 these things, and our next speaker needs no particular intro- 

 duction to you, except to say that he is no exception to the 

 rule. I am always very glad when he has anything to say, 

 because he speaks from experience. He is a man of sound 

 judgment, a man whose opinion is worth something, and i 

 have great pleasure in introducing Mr. Richard Hittinger, 

 of the Hittinger Fruit Company, Belmont, Mass., who will 

 speak to us on "Pear Growing." (Applause). 



PEAR GROWING. 



Mr. Richard Hittinger, Hittinger Fruit Co., Belmont 



:\Ir. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : A good many 

 years ago, we grew a great many pears in our section out 

 through Belmont, Watertown, Cambridge and Dorchester 

 and all through Brighton. There never seemed to be any 

 trouble. The trees grew and bore fruit, and everything was 

 all right. But now to give you some of our experience of 

 years ago in setting our young trees. We bought our trees 

 from the nurseries, trimmed up the roots and saved the little 

 fibrous roots and were careful to spread them out when we 



