166 HOME FRUIT GROWER 



as picked they should be placed in a chest of drawers, a closed closet, 

 spread upon shelves and covered with paper, or wrapped in paper 

 and placed in boxes any way to keep them out of a current 

 of air. 



Many Pear varieties are specially successful when grown as 

 standard dwarfs upon Quince roots. Some do better, others as 

 well one way as the other, some fail unless "double worked." This 

 process consists in first grafting an amenable kind on the Quince, 

 then grafting this over to the desired variety. Among the varieties of 

 each class are the following; 



Varieties better as dwarf than as standard trees: Angouleme, 

 Diel, Easter, Glout Morceau, Louise Bonne and Vicar. Varieties 

 equally good on Pear or Quince stocks: Barry, Josephine, Winter 

 Nelis, Gris d'Hiver, Danas, Hovey and Easter Beurre. Varieties 

 better on Pear than on Quince stocks are: Bartlett, Gray Doyenne, 

 Lucrative, Onondaga, Seckel. Varieties that generally fail on Quince 

 unless double-worked: Bosc, Sheldon, Winter Nelis. Before deciding 

 on any of the first two groups, I would choose the varieties I discussed 

 in the Garden Magazine as follows: 



"The Cornice Pear, in my opinion, deserves more general plant- 

 ing, especially for home use. Of all the high-quality Pears I should 

 place it second only to Seckel, though Sheldon pushes it rather hard 

 for this high place. It is certainly finer flavored than any specimen 

 of Bosc, Anjou, or Clapp that I have ever eaten. In size the best 

 specimens I have sampled equal Angouleme, which they surpass in 

 texture as well as flavor. In juiciness it is the equal of Louise Bonne 

 de Jersey, which it surpasses in having a far less astringent, tough, 

 gritty skin. As to its sweetness, it is a close rival of Flemish Beauty. 

 For a Pear to form one of a succession it would cap the climax of this 

 list: Clapp, Flemish, Seckel, Sheldon, Cornice, thus covering the 

 season from mid-September to late November provided the family 

 appetite would let it last that long." 



Most of the early Pears are undesirable because their quality is 

 inferior to that of later ones, or they decay at the core before showing 

 any symptoms on the surface. But since the earliest begin to mature 

 nearly two months earlier than the Bartlett, it may be well to include 

 not more than one tree each of Madeleine, Manning's Elizabeth, 

 Tyson, Rostiezer, Clapp and Giffard. Unless there is plenty of 

 space I would omit Bartlett because it is not of as high quality as 

 later ones and it is always obtainable in the market. I would rather 

 devote the area to Onondaga, Hardy, Howell, Vermont Beauty, 

 Lawrence, Easter Beurre, Anjou, Boussock, Buffum, Madeleine, 

 Malines, Rostiezer, Superfine, Tyson and White Doyenne. 



