OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



careful nursing and high dressing will 

 dwindle into lean shanks of pears that have 

 no flavor. My advice to you is— to throw the 

 fine list in the fire ; to limit yourself, until you 

 have felt your way, to some ten or a dozen of 

 the best established varieties; don't be afraid 

 of old things if they are good; if a gaunt 

 Rhode Island Greening tree is struggling in 

 your hedge-row, trim it, scrape it, soap it, dig 

 about it, pull away the turf from it, lime it, and 

 then if you can keep up a fair fight against the 

 bugs and the worms, you will have fine fruit 

 from it; if you can't, cut it down. If a vet- 

 eran mossy pear tree is in your door-yard, 

 groom it as you would a horse — just in from a 

 summering in briary pastures — put scions of 

 Bartlett, of Winter Nelis, of Rostiezer into its 

 top and sides. In an unctuous spot of your 

 garden, plant your dwarf Duchess, Bonne de 

 Jersey, Beurre Diel, and your Glout Morceau. 

 If either don't do well, pull it up and burn it; 

 don't waste labor on a sickly young tree. 

 Save some sheltered spot for a trellis, where 

 you may plant a Delaware, an lona or two, a 

 Rebecca, and a Diana. Put a Concord at 

 your south-side door— its rampant growth 

 will cover your trellised porch in a pair of 

 seasons : it will give you some fine clusters, 



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