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summer or early fall, while one which has healthy smd persistent 

 leaves is to be preferred. The curculio and other insects 

 sometimes attack pears, but the injur}' is not often serious. 

 We should encourage the small birds in every possible way as 

 the best protection from insects. The canker worm, the borer, 

 the tent caterpillar and the codlin moth, which are so destruc- 

 tive to the apple crop, have not as yet troubled the pear ; 

 though the " web-worm," or fall caterpillar, shows a decided 

 preference for the pear and should always be destroyed. 



Of the i:i7-ofit of pears there can be no doubt. But perhaps 

 some will say if they are generally planted and cared for as we 

 have described, it will not "■ pay" — they will become a drug in 

 the market. Having carefully watched the market for the last 

 ten years, we are free to say that the price of good merchantable 

 fruit has constantly advanced. Sometimes early August pears 

 have been a drug and have been sold at low prices, as have 

 also the first gathered of that most plentiful of all pears, the 

 Bartlett ; but this has been owing to having " windfalls" and 

 immature fruit forced upon the market, and tliat, too, in the 

 height of the peach season. What wonder is it that people 

 should prefer peaches to half-grown, flavorless pears ? Those 

 who have thinned out their fruit, and left it upon the trees till 

 fully grown, towards the last of the season, have obtained good 

 prices. Well grown Bartlett pears readily sold at four dollars 

 per bushel in any of the cities of this county, for the last three 

 seasons, by the middle of September, and a week or ten days 

 later were worth six or eight dollars in Boston, though probably 

 the average price through the season was not over three or 

 four dollars. Could not the growing of this pear be made a 

 specialty by some of our farmers in this vicinity, and would 

 they not readily find a market by the hundred bari'ols, in New 

 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Portland and the cities 

 further east ? Bartlett pear trees, in ten years from planting, 

 ought to yield a bushel to a tree, on an average, every year, 

 taking the whole orchard through. We know of some on a 

 small scale which have done much better than this. Any one 

 on reflection can see the difference between this and the profits 

 of apple orchards. 



