102 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



desire to put tlic Secretary of the American Pomologi- 

 cal Society, wliere lie has voluntarily placed himself, on 

 our side, in this discussion. 



The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the 

 American Pomological Society, after all his talk about 

 '' high culture," for the pear, still holds a position very 

 similar to that which we advocate. We quote from the 

 Pteport of the Pomological Lectures at New Haven, 

 published in the Gardener'' & Montlily. After Mr. 

 Wilder's lecture on the pear — " A member called in 

 question the propriety of <• high culture' (as generally 

 understood) for the pear on good soils, or the free ma- 

 nuring of the pear tree, and esp^ially dwarf pears, with 

 stable manure, as might be supposed necessary from the 

 remarks of Mr. Wilder. This, he contended, was not 

 practised by the most successful cultivators where the 

 soil is good. Mr. Wilder not being present, it was ex- 

 plained by a friend, that he did not intend to say that 

 the pe?.r should be freely manured with stable manure 

 on good soils, as he does on the poor, thin, gravelly 

 soil of Dorchester ; and in proof of this, a passage was 

 quoted from his lecture, as follows : <■ Surely it would be 

 unwise to apply the same cultivation to the peach and 

 the cherry as to the apple and the pear, or to treat any 

 of these on new and fertile ground as in old and ex- 

 hausted land.' 



"The subject of deep and shallow planting, especi- 

 ally in its application to the pear, came up in this same 

 discussion, and was pretty freely ventilated. The re- 



