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given my remarks on a few well-known and preferable sorts; 

 they may be applied, with slight modifications, to all the varieties 

 in list I. 



LIST II. 



Pears that require double working before they will succeed on 

 the quince; this is merely grafting or budding some free-growing 

 sort of pear on the quince, and then regrafting the graft the fol- 

 lowing season with the " refractory sort," to use the expression of 

 your friend Docman. 



No. 3 is exceedingly " refractory," and I am not quite sure 

 that it will live and flourish for any lengthened period, although 

 double worked on very thrifty stocks. In some soils this fine pear 

 does not ripen well on standards, it is therefore very desirable to get 

 it to do well on the quince, as it will, I have no doubt, bear when 

 the tree is young; at present it is, while young, a shy bearer. 



No. 4. My standards of this sort on the pear stock too often 

 bear misshapen fruit, inclined to speck and crack, and in some 

 seasons not ripening well on the quince. Its fruit is clear, fine, 

 and remarkably high flavored. 



No. 11. I notice this pear, as I remarked a short time since one 

 of your correspondents inquired of you its origin, which you could 

 not give. I received it with several other sorts from M. Van 

 Mons, I think about 18 years ago; I understood him at the time 

 that they were seedlings, not then named; this is a very hardy 

 and excellent late pear, about the size of Beurre d' Aremberg, 

 but larger, first rate in quality as a melting pear, and fit for the 

 table from February to April; the sorts then received were placed 

 in the nursery catalogue as " Inconnue Van Mons," and number- 

 ed. They all stand under the same name, with different numbers 

 attached. 



The sorts I use to form a stock on the quince for regrafting are 

 Buerre d' Amanlis, Jargonelle d' Automne, Fondante de Brest. 

 These all form the most luxuriant stocks. Grafting on the quince 



