198 DWAKF PEARS. 



Pears succeeding on the quince only by double-working. 



Beurre Pose, Beurre Ranee, 



Marie Louise, Ne Plus Meuris, 



Gansel's Bergamot Thompson's, 



Dix, Dunmore, 



Flemish Beauty. Hacon's Incomparable, 



Knight's Monarch, Winter Nelis and Seckel, inmost 



Suffolk Thorn, instances, but sometimes suc- 



Crassane, Winter and Althorpe, ceeding. 



Urbaniste, 



The result is not always the same in different soils and 

 in different seasons. The Seckel, for instance, has wholly 

 failed in one year, and in another, on the same spot of 

 ground, has grown well. The White Doyenn; grew fine- 

 ly one summer, and almost totally failed the next. Some 

 sorts which in nearly all cases do well, occasionally prove 

 unsuccessful. A few, uniformly, in all seasons and in 

 all soils, make a rapid and vigorous growth, of which the 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey is perhaps the most striking ex- 

 ample ; some others, again, invariably fail, (unless double- 

 worked,) the most prominent among which stands the 

 Beurre Bosc. Indeed, so averse is this variety to a union 

 with the quince, that it is by no means certain that it may 

 not soon fail if worked in whatever manner. In some places, 

 however, double-working has given it smooth and fair fruit 

 where it has been cracked and blighted on the pear. Both 

 this and the Flemish Beauty, as w r ell as the Marie 

 Louise, and some others, succeed well when grafted on the 

 hawthorn. 



The changes wrought by the quince stock, are often im- 

 portant and interesting. T. Rivers states that the Beurre 

 d'Arernberg ripens several w r eeks earlier in winter; that the 

 Easter Beurre is rendered more productive and matures its 

 fruit, while on the pear it is a bad bearer, and does not 

 ripen ; that the Fortunee is a "perfect crab " upon the pear, 

 but on the quince is melting and juicy; that the Glout Mor- 

 ceau is imperfect and ripens badly on the pear, but is always 

 fair and attains a high and mature flavor on quince. As a 

 general effect, the size of the fruit is increased, but in a few 

 cases it is rendered more gritty in texture. 



Unfavorable soils occasionally preclude the cultivation 

 of some pears, but for the favorable influence of the stock. 



