STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. G5 



Habor, and the largest possible profit from your acre, I should set ^ 

 dwarfs, ten feet apart each way. When I first commenced in t\\e" 

 business, twenty-s'x 3'ears ago, I did not lik^ the sound of dwarf 

 trees, and looked on them as a curiosity that would do lo set out in 

 the flov\-er garden. Accordingly, I set two on the edge as a novelty. 

 One of them was a Duchess, and is a good, healthy bearing tree ; 

 the other was a Louise Bonne de Jersey, which bore itself to death, 

 and died last year for the want of proper treatment. When they 

 came into bearing, whica tbey did after the third year, and I saw 

 that there was nothing dwarf about the fruit, I began to change my 

 mind, and did not care what they called the tree as long as it bore 

 the largest fruit, the most of it, and almost invariably took the arst 

 premiums. My experience with those two trees, and about one 

 hundred and fifty more, set ten 3'ears later, as compared with about 

 the same number of standards, (as I have about an equal number 

 of each,) has convinced me that you can get five times as much 

 profit from an acre of dwarfs as you can from an acre of standards. 

 I am so selfish that I want the benefit of my labor while I live, and 

 don't care to invest, or recommend others to, in anything that does 

 not promise quick returns and good profits. As a consequence, I 

 have never invested in life insurance, and shall put no m'^re money 

 into standard pear trees. 



After you have decided which kinds you will set, provide yourself 

 with as many small stakes as you have trees to plant, and lay out 

 your grounds. Drive your stakes just where you want each tree to 

 stand when set, and be sure and have your rows straight, and the 

 trees of equal distance each way. Dig the holes six inches deeper 

 than you want the tree to set, and put the top soil in a pile by the 

 edge of the hole, the bottom soil close to it, and have the diameter 

 of the holes three and one-half to four feet. Be sure and replace 

 the stakes, and keep them in line both ways. Provide leaf mold 

 enough to apply half a wheelbarrow load to each tree, and dump it 

 close to the edge of the hole, also five large shovels full of thoroughly 

 decomposed barnyard manure, and put that beside the leaf mold. 

 Having previousl3' provided good, healthy trees, prepare them by 

 pruning and cutting them back as they should be. Cut off all the 

 bruised ends of the roots, take a wheelbarrow load of ashes, a bucket 

 of water, a round stick two feet long, one and one-half inches in 

 diameter, made on purpose to tamp the dirt around the roots, one 



