THE PEAR. 



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planted, choice should be made of those worked on the 

 Quince stock, for then the growth is more congenial to 

 early fruiting, and much less rampant. In the case of 

 dwarf pja-amids as well as trained trees, it will be 

 necessary to lift them every two or three years to 

 check too strong a growth, which is sure to arise in the 







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Fig. 15. 



course of a few years with the Pear in good strong 

 ground. Yet this is what is wanted to get fine 

 fruit. 



Fig. 14 is an example of a too free-growing compara- 

 tively young tree which has been annually cut back on 

 the spur system, a a a a a. When a tree gets into 

 this wood-making state little or no fruit will be had 

 from it, except at the extremities of the leader on 

 the two-year-old wood. In such a case the best plan 

 is to cut the old spurs close off to the leader, as in 

 b b bb b. Do this in the autumn after the tree has been 



