

CHAPTER III. 



THE PRUNING, RENOVATION, AND TRAINING OF THE 



PEAR. 



The Pear has engaged the attention of all fruit- 

 growers and writers on these subjects as much as the 

 Peach, and perhaps even more, from first to last. Yet 

 even now we can go into gardens and find Pear-trees 

 of all classes sadly deficient as regards good culture. 

 It may seem strange to some, but it is not difficult to 



Fig. 14. 



find gardens where the Pear is in exactly the same 

 deteriorated state as it appears in the illustration, 

 Fig. 15. This is too bad at this advanced stage of fruit 

 culture. 



When pyramidal or wall-trained Pears are to be 



