THE GENESEE FARJiIER. 



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THE SARTLETI FEAB. 



"We here present an engraving of a standard 

 Bartlett Pear tree, growing in the grounds of Mr, 

 Joseph Hall, near this city. It was planted about 

 twelve years ago. The fourth year after planting, it 

 bore a bushel of fine fruit, and for the last five or 

 six years it has borne at least a barrel each year. 

 The fruit has been 

 Bold for $10 a bar- 

 rel. The tree has 

 received no extra 

 care or cultivation. 

 It grows on a lawn. 

 It has been winter 

 pruned, the branch- 

 es being shortened 

 in sufficient to keep 

 the tree in good 

 shape. The fruit is 

 of good size and 

 quality, though, of 

 course, not equal 

 in these respects 

 to that grown on 

 dwarf- trees that 

 receive good culti- 

 vation. 



The Bartlett pear 

 originated in Berk- 

 shire, Eng., about 

 the year 1770. It 

 was afterward pro- 

 pagated by a Lon- 

 don fruit-grower of 

 the name of Wil- 

 liams, and was 

 called Williams Bon 

 Chretian. It was 

 introduced into this 

 country in 1799, by 

 Exocii Bartlett, 

 of Dorchester, Mass., and hence is universally 

 known in America as the Bartlett pear. Downing 

 says: "It suits our climate admirably, ripening 

 better here than in Englapd, and has the unusual 

 property of maturing perfectly in the house, even 

 if picked before it is full grown. It has no compe- 

 titor as a summer market fruit." 



ENGLISH HAWTHORN HEDGES. 



Labels for Fruit Trees. — At the nurseries of 

 Andre' Leeot, in France, they use a label made 

 of earthen ware, stamped, before baking, with the 

 name of the fruit, and having a hole in one end 

 through which to pass the wire for attaching it to 

 the tree or plant. 



"We make the following extracts from an able 

 article on "fences" in Morton's Cyclopedia of 

 Agriciflture : 



Before we enter upon the subject, we deem it 

 ■ desirable to call the serious attention of parties to 

 the important practice of previously preparing the 



soil on which tlie 

 hedge is to be plant- 

 ed for a permanent 

 fence. In>lepend- 

 ently of the pleas- 

 ure every one must 

 experience on seeing 

 aflne, healthy,thriv- 

 ing, young fence, 

 there is another ad- 

 vantage , in favor 

 of well prepared 

 ground, which is 

 the saving of two 

 or three years' dead 

 fencing for the pro- 

 tection of the hedge. 

 This, in some local- 

 ities, where the ma- 

 terials are scarce, 

 forms an item wor- 

 thy of considera- 

 tion. 



The fact is, with 

 good plants, success 

 or Mlure almost en- 

 tirely depends on 

 the preparation of 

 the soil, and the 

 future removal of 

 weeds, as fast as 

 they appear, for the 

 first four or five 

 years. 



The plan which 

 we have found best 

 for general pur- 

 poses, is to trench 

 the ground, where 

 the soil will admit 

 of it, two spits deep, 

 and three or four 

 feet wide, along the site of. the intended hedge. 

 Then add a coat of well-rotted fold-yard manure, 

 and slightly fork it in. This should be done 

 some time before planting. For agricultural pur- 

 poses, we recommend new fences to be i)lanted in 

 straight lines. AVhen the time of planting arrives, 

 set out the site of the fence in a straight line, by 

 sticking some stakes into the ground about twenty 

 yards apart, one foot from which, on the side where 

 the ditch is intended to be made, stretch a line, 

 and, with a sharp spade, cut out one side of the 

 ditch. Measure otf the width of the intended ditch, 

 and cut out the other side. Tlien take off the top 

 spit in squares, about six inches deep, if the ground 

 be in pasture, and turn it upside down on the space 

 left between the inner edge of the ditch and the 

 stakes which mark the line of quick. This soil 

 will form a support to the plants when put in. 



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STANDARD PEAR TREE — BARTLETT, 



