DWARF PEARS 



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perimented in a country where pears do not naturally 

 succeed, and because, further, my fancies have run 

 more to other kinds of fruit. 



It is probably true that the pear is improved more 



FIG. 29 DWARF PEARS IN THE OLD AND PROFITABLE YEOMANS 

 ORCHARD, NEW YORK 



in quality than any other fruit by being grown in 

 dwarf form and trained as cordons and espaliers on 

 a suitable frame or wall. This is emphatically true in 

 cold and inclement climates, where indeed some of 



