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PEKMANENT PLANTATIONS. 



To give trees a perfectly pyramidal form requires con- 

 siderable care and skill in their management. This will be 

 spoken of presently in treating of the fruit garden ; but 

 very beautiful and prolific low standards may be made on 

 the quince, with stems about two feet high, and the heads 

 above that point left to branch in their natural way. 

 Trees of this form bear full as soon as the pyramids, be- 

 cause they are pruned less ; they may always be relied 

 upon for a crop the second or third year after planting. 

 "We have gathered upwards of fifty large and perfect spe- 

 cimens from trees four years old, and many had been 

 thinned off. Trees of the white Doyenne have produced 

 upwards of twenty very large specimens the third year, 

 from the bud. Fig. 97 is a portrait of a four-year-old Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, on quince, never pruned. 



In selecting pears on the 

 quince for j^rofitable orchard 

 culture among standards, va- 

 rieties should be chosen that 

 succeed particularly well on 

 the quince, such as Louise 

 tonne de Jersey^ Duchess 

 d? Angouleme^ Beurre^ Diel^ 

 Bartlett^ White Doyenne^ Vi- 

 car of Winl'Jield^ GloutMor- 

 ceau^ Easter Beurre^ &c., &c. 

 All these, and many others 

 that will be named hereafter, 

 grow vigorously, bear early, 

 and produce larger, and in 

 all respects finer fruit on the 

 quince than on the pear. S. 

 B. Parsons, Esq., of Flushing, 

 Long Island, of the well known nursery firm of Parsons & 

 Co., has planted an orchard of fom- acres with 440 stand- 



Fio. 97. 

 Half standard pear tree on quince. 



