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No. 21. Grows freely here on the pear stock, and blooms freely, yet sel- 

 dom bears any clear fruit ; they are generally full of spots, and often do not 

 ripen. at all kindly. On the quince stock it bears clear handsome fruit, 

 which invariably ripen, and are very highly flavored. 



No. 23. On my finest soil here, a tender loam six feet in depth, subsoil 

 sand, this sort always cankers, and very seldom produces any good fruit ; in 

 short, it is a very shy bearer when on the pear stock ; on the quince it grows 

 freely, and bears most abundantly ; fruit, fine and clear, and of high flavor. 



No. 25. This, of all the pears I know, is most benefited by working on 

 the quince. My specimen tree, on a pear stock now twelve years old, has 

 scarcely borne a dozen good clear fruit, and some standards of nearly twenty 

 years' growth canker at the lips of their shoots, and their fruit is, in most 

 seasons, spotted and misshapen. On the quince, how diflferent ! I have 

 trees, from three to five years old, full of fruit, and these have hitherto, 

 every season, been large, remarkably high-colored, beautiful, and of the 

 highest flavor. " Constant Reader" will, I think, see that I have some 

 confidence in the quince stock, when I state that I have a young plantation 

 of this variety, on the quince, of 1500 trees, which I hope to make up in 

 the autumn to 3000 ; these are to bear to supply the London market. At 

 the expense of being thought a little egotistical, I must tell him that I am 

 not only a pear tree grower, but also a pear grower ; Providence has kindly 

 blessed me with fifty acres of good land, on vvhich roses and pears, and I 

 know not what, seem to be "very happy:" this is a favorite phrase with 

 one of our best gardeners, who, when he sees a tree in fine order, or one 

 the contrary, designates them " happy and unhappy trees." 



No. 27 bears here, on the pear stock, a tremendous quantity of fruit ; 

 these are often inclined to speck, and they seldom ripen well in the fruit- 

 room. On the quince stock the fruit are clear, always ripen well, and are 

 of the highest flavor. I have, as above, given my remarks on a few well 

 known and preferable sorts ; they may be applied, with slight modifications, 

 to all the varieties in List L 



List IL 



Pears that require double working before they will succeed on the quince; 

 this is merely grafting or budding some free-growing sort of pear on the 

 quince, and then re-grafting the graft, the following season, with the " re- 

 fractory sort," to use the expression of your friend "Dodman." 



1. Bergamot, Autumn, 



2. Bergamot, Gansell's, 



3. Beurre Bosc, 



4. Beurr6 Ranee, 



5. Broom Park, 



6. Brougham, 



7. Crassane, Althorp, 



8. Crassane, Winter, 



9. Dunmore, 



10. Hacon's Incomparable, 



11. Inconnue, Van Mons, 175, 



12. Jean de Witte, 



13. Marie Louise, 



14. Monarch, Knight's, 



15. Nelis, Winter, 



16. Ne Plus Meuris, 



17. Saint Marc, 



18. Seckel, 



19. Suflblk Thorn, 



20. Thompson's, 



21. Urbaniste. 



