16 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1877. 



mistake; the fewer sorts the better. If I were ojrowing fruit for the 

 market, and was to plant a dozen trees, I should not care for more than 

 two sorts; out of twenty-five trees I would not have but four, and out of 

 a hundred not over eight, and those eight would be the ones before 

 named. 



To go on a little farther, we will consider a few varieties for amateur 

 culture, or for one's own family use, covering a longer season, following 

 in closer succession, and embracing some of the finest flavored sorts of 

 the highest character. Kipening a few weeks before the Bartlett, we 

 have the Eostiezer, a juicy, sugary pear, of small size, and the Beurre 

 Giffard, a fruit of medium size, a good bearer and of fine flavor. Ripen- 

 ing after the Bartlett, we have the Seckel, known to you all as one of the 

 richest, finest flavored pears in cultivation. Although I would advise 

 every one to have a Seckel pear tree for their own use, I hardly think it 

 a profitable variety to grow for the market. 



The Doyenne Boussoc is a fruit of large size and quite showy, and 

 some cultivators have found it profitable as a market sort. Like the 

 Bartlett, it decays rapidly, and is not as reliable as some other varieties 

 ripening at the same time. The lovers of fruit of a sprightly, vinous 

 flavor will find the Beurre Superfin and Paradis d' Automne to be most 

 excellent varieties. If a sweet, melting, sugary pear is -wanted, the 

 Beurre Hardy will supply the want, and ripening about the first of October 



If any one wishes for a fine growing tree of a shapely, upright habit 

 of growth, as an ornament to an estate, take the Buffum and you will be 

 well suited, but you will find the fruit small, and number two or three in 

 quality. If you like a mealy pear you will have it in the Bufiium, and get 

 a crop of them every year. The Belle Lucrative is another regular and 

 heav3' bearing variety of good size, and very juicy and sweet, in fact it 

 is rather too sweet to suit some tastes, but our sweet toothed pear eaters 

 all claim that it is just splendid. I have found this to be a profitable 

 market sort, being of good size, and a heavy bearer every year. 



Another variety of the highest character, and ripening in N^ovember, 

 is the Doyenne du Comice, a fruit of a large size, and a fair cropper. 

 This variety seems to thrive best on the quince stock. The Winter Nelis 

 is a small sized November pear, but a very rich, melting, juicy fruit, of 

 the highest flavor. This is one of those rambling growing trees that dis- 

 courage nurserymen, and it is best obtained by grafting it upon some 

 older trees. 



A variety that many have condemned on account of its ripening so 

 poorly, is the Vicar, one of our latest keeping varieties. Now the fault 

 does not rest so much with the pear as with the management it receives. 

 It is an enormous bearer, and bears regularly every year. By thinning 



