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dug around, and manured, would have gladly 

 given the farmer five dollars worth of fruit, 

 for every clay that he might have thus kindly 

 devoted to them. The case of old neglected 

 pear trees is still more deplorable. 



A hundred standard pear trees need not oc- 

 cupy over an adre of land. Their annual 

 crop, if of proper varieties, Would certainly 

 not fall short of the value of five dollars for 

 each tree. Excellent judges assure us that 

 this estimate is quite too low. But even at 

 this moderate computation, the income from a 

 single acre of pears would amount to the an- 

 nual sum of five hundred dollars. And the 

 labor attending the good management of the 

 trees and their crop^ would be less than what 

 is usually bestowed upon many other products 

 of the farmef's fields. 



Four hundred dwarf pear trees would have 

 plenty of room upon an acre. Under the care 

 of a skillful cultivator, they might be made to 

 yield a much more valuable crop than the 

 same piece of land, in pear-rooted standards. 

 Some writers say more than double the crop 

 would be produced by the dwarfs. Thus the 

 income from a single acre of fruit trees prop- 

 erly cultivated and managed, might easily be 



