XVI INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



could get dwarfs for nothing, and had to pay fifty 

 dollars psr hundred for standards, I would not hesi- 

 tate a moment to choose the latter. This conclusion 

 has been reached by an extended experience with 

 dwarfs on my own place, and confirmed by what I 

 have seen in different sections of this country and in 

 Europe, wherever pears are grown to any extent out- 

 side of the garden. 



I am now convinced that even the "Duchessed' 

 Angouleme " will do much better as a standard than 

 as a dwarf. This was the only exception I made when 

 " Pear Culture for Profit " was originally published. 



RETARDING. 



Each succeeding years' experience demonstrates be- 

 yond doubt (if there was a question of doubt in any 

 man's mind), that those who desire to reap the largest 

 profits from pear growing, must provide ways and 

 means of holding back a portion of their crop of 

 Bartletts; in fact of all the varieties. If proof is 

 needed on this point, it is only necessary to state as a 

 fact that in the middle of September, 1881, Bartlett 

 pears of the first quality were selling in open market 

 for a dollar a bushel. A month later, from the mid- 

 dle to the end of October, Bartletts of the same size 

 and quality brought from two and a-half to three dol- 

 lars per bushel, and sold faster than before. This 

 year's experience, showing, as it does, the advantages 

 of holding Bartletts back until the end of October, 

 or early November, is not an isolated instance, and 

 those who have practised this plan have been compen- 

 sated in about the same ratio for the past six or eight 



