122 DWARF FRUIT TREES 



commercial varieties are Seckel, Bosc and Winter 

 Nelis. All these are generally grown as standards. 

 The variety commonly grown as dwarf is Angouleme. 

 A few fruit growers of my acquaintance are making 

 some money from orchards of dwarf Angouleme. The 

 other varieties which are often propagated on dwarf 

 stock as Clairgeau, Anjou and so forth, are seldom 

 profitable. In fact I have heard it stated that outside 

 of Ellwanger and Barry's orchard there is not a profit- 

 able orchard of Anjou in this State. From these state- 

 ments I wish you to derive the conclusion that in New 

 York State under present conditions there is little en- 

 couragement for planting dwarf pears commercially." 



Mr. E. W. Wood, for many years chairman of the 

 fruit committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, says that "under the right conditions the dwarf 

 pear tree is a necessity for commercial pear growing. 

 The growers in Revere and Cambridge would feel 

 they could not get along without the dwarf trees. 

 Putting the pear on the quince stock does not change 

 the wants of the roots of the latter, and it is no use 

 setting them on a light, dry soil, as the roots being 

 confined to a small area of unsuitable soil, will make 

 a feeble growth and finally die outright; or, if in an 

 exposed situation, blow over. Most all the varieties 

 may be grown as dwarfs. The Angouleme and Clair- 

 geau, both good market varieties, cannot be success- 

 fully grown in any other way." 



Recently Mr, M. B. Waite has written me the let- 

 ter quoted below, giving some conclusions from his 

 experience with dwarf pears in Anne Arundel County, 

 Maryland. He says: 



