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each, S55, and if you set dwarfs, ten feet apart each way, it will 

 take 430 trees to plant an acre, just three dwarfs to one standard, 

 and they will cost, at twenty-five cents each, about ^108, making 

 the cost if 3'ou set dwarfs, about $53 more for the trees than it will 

 to plant it with standards ; add to this $100 for fertilizers, labor, 

 &c., will make your orchard, if you set dwarfs, cost you about $208, 

 and if you plant standards it will cost about §150, and that amount, 

 if you have any taste and gumption at all, will do it in first-class 

 shape, and you will get good pay for j'our labor and fertilizers, and 

 you will have an orchard, if you take care of it as it should be, that 

 will prove to be a good investment and a source of pleasure and 

 enjo3'ment. 



With 3'our orchard all set, the bulk of the labor and expense is 

 over as it requires but very little labor and expense to keep it in 

 order. The trees need but very little prunning except to keep the 

 leading shoots cut back, so as to make the tree stocky with a symme- 

 trical head. Keep the ground entirely clean of weeds, which is 

 easil}' done, for you can cultivate both ways. Give them a good 

 annual manuring round the trees after the third year, and for the 

 first three years you can plant one row of beans or potatoes between 

 each row of trees. After that they will commence to bear, and you 

 should give them the benefit of the whole surface. 



In regard to varieties much can be said, for their number is legion. 

 But I shall only notice a few of the old, tried sorts that we know 

 are good and pay the best, that do as well on the quince root as dwarfs, 

 and let each individual experiment and test for himself as many 

 kinds as he pleases. There are lots of pleasure and enjoyment in 

 doing that, but more pleasure than money. 



For a summer pear there has nothing yet been brought out that is 

 equal to the Bartlett, all things considered, either for a standard or 

 dwarf. It is an early and abundant bearer, yields good crops 

 annually, and there is more money in it for me than there is in any 

 other summer variety, and I should set one-fourth of an orchard to 

 this sort. 



For a fall pear I think, all things considered, there is more money 

 in the Louise Bonne de Jersey than in any other. It is au annual 

 bearer, does it best as a dwarf, and is one of the best selling {«fais 

 in the market. Its worst fault is it tendency to overbear, and the 

 fruit must be thinned to save the trees and have the fruit mature 

 to perfection. The trees are more subject to blight than most others. 



