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The marketing of fine fruit is quite a trade, as is also the 

 picking and ripening, but this can be readily learned when 

 enough is raised to make it an object. 



We propose to name a few varieties, in the order of their 

 value for market and family purposes, and first will be the 

 Bartlett — of vigorous growth, adapting itself to a greater 

 variety of, soil and climate than any other, and of such won- 

 derful productiveness that young trees often bear to a fault ; of 

 good quality, though connoisseurs speak of a disagreeable 

 " musky flavor," still it is readily accepted by the " million," 

 and bought in preference to tlie Seckel or Belle Lucrative^ and 

 is vithout doubt our most profitable market pear. The Beurre 

 d'Anjou, coming a month or six weeks later, is very highly 

 prized by those who know it best. A hardy and vigorous tree, 

 a regular but not over-abundant bearer, fruit of large size, good 

 quality, with an abundance of vinous juice. It is an October 

 pear, but- will keep well into November, and will always 

 command a high price. Six dollars per bushel was the whole- 

 sale price offered last year by dealers around Boston. We are 

 told of one tree in the western part of this State, the fruit of 

 which in one year was sold for $100. The Laivrence is a pear, 

 of wliich the more you know the better you will like it. Any 

 one who is not pleased with a Lawrence pear in its season 

 (November and December) is hard to suit. The tree is a very 

 slow grower ut first, but after it becomes well established, is 

 strong and vigorous. It is, taking the county through, one of 

 the most hardy trees known, and is becoming more popular 

 every year. Fruit of medium size, and quite sure to ripen up 

 yellow, and then it is sweet and delicious. The ySheldoii is a 

 pear of later introduction, very few trees in this vicinity are 

 yet of bearing size, the largest one we know bears regularly as 

 abundant crops as the Bartlett. Fruit large, russet and of the 

 finest quality, October ; tree very vigorous and hardy ; same 

 with Doyenne Boussock, though the fruit in quality would liardly 

 come up to the Sheldon ; still it is good, large and fair, and 

 very profitable fi)r the market. But this report will hardly 

 permit of a description of the Vicar, Beurre Bosc, (one of the 



