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The quince-rooted pear enjoys a rich, high- 

 ly cultivated soil, and is much less able to 

 endure rough treatment or neglect, than his 

 stronger-footed brother of the pear-root. Its 

 appropriate place is the garden, where, prop- 

 erly treated, it is, at once, one of the most or-' 

 namental and profitable tenants that can dwell 

 there. Quince-bottomed pears should be 

 headed-in, more or less severely every year. 



Dwarf pear-trees whether on quince or 

 pear, which are not to be trained to a wall or 

 trellis, ought to be pruned to a' pyramidal or 

 conical form. In order to this, take a tree of 

 one year's growth upon the graft. Shorten 

 back the leading shoot, nearly or quite one 

 half its length. This will develope the desir- 

 able side branches ; to encourage the growth 

 of which still more, it is well to shorten back 

 the leading shoot, about the first of July. 

 This will, about the middle of the growth of 

 next spring, cause to start out another tier of 

 branches, a foot above the last. The next 

 summer in July the leader is again cut back 

 to within about a foot of the last tier, which 

 will cause the growth of a third set, and this 

 must be repeated every year, till the tree is 

 from six to ten or more feet high, as the taste 



