138 state; pomological society. 



D. p. True : Yes, and I have found that, as a rule, there is 

 no help for it. If it only attacks a limb, cut off your limb and 

 burn it. However, I have had many beautiful trees blight and 

 I laid it to too much animal manure. 



Mr. Wooster : I sent to Rochester some years ago and got 

 quite a number of pear trees, dwarfs and standards, Clapp's 

 Favorite and Sheldon and six trees of a variety I don't know 

 what. These six trees have borne about ten pears which are 

 striped like a Bartlett. The trees all blossom well but the blos- 

 soms fall and they don't bear. The trees are thrifty and appar- 

 ently hardy, they grow different from any trees I ever saw. 

 The limbs grow in a sort of a curled up shape instead of straight. 

 I should like to know what variety the tree is and the cause of 

 its not bearing. 



D. P. True: I can't tell you the variety, but I should advise 

 your using the trees for stock and graft to some other variety. 



Mr. WoosTER : I also have some Clapp's Favorites and 

 Flemish Beauties which I can't do a thing with. They bear 

 fruit about as big as your thumb and hard as a rock. Over in 

 Sullivan, at the same latitude and in the same kind of soil, these 

 varieties do well. 



Prof. MuNSON : You must watch and spray. Evidently the 

 pear scab has attacked your trees. You can also prevent blight- 

 ing and cracking by spraying with the Bordeaux mixture. I 

 call to mind an article I read some little time ago, saying that 

 the Anjou could not be grown in New England. Mr. Libby 

 has shown the fallacy of that statement for he grows very fine 

 trees and says he thinks them the best winter pear. 



Mr. Gurney: I raise the Duchess and think that a pretty 

 good pear. 



D. P. True: That is a fall pear, I believe, ripening in the 

 middle of October and will keep till some time in November. 



Mr. Wooster : What shall I graft those trees of mine to ? 



Mr. Gurney : Try the Sheldon. 



Mr. Wooster : The Sheldon won't grow where I live. 



D. P. True: I would advise your looking around among" 

 your neighbors and finding some variety that has proved a 

 success. 



