THE PEAR. 



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though it is one of the most vigorous growers in the orchard, 

 and now over thirty feet high. It is the earliest and most 

 beautiful of all pears, ripening about the first of June, but it 

 rots at the core in a day or so after being gathered, if near 

 ripe, and in quality is about equal to sawdust. Referring 

 again to the Garber, and budding from bearing trees, it 

 would not be advisable to top-bud young two or three-year- 

 old Le Conte trees in orchard, for the labor of keeping the 

 Le Conte shoots rubbed off below would be very considerable 

 for several years. It would be far better to bud within a foot 

 of the ground, and turn the whole tree into that pear. 



Having discussed the growing of cuttings fully in a former 

 chapter, it is only necessary to say here that it is practically 

 impossible to grow this pear from cuttings except in the fall, 

 when, if planted the last of September or early in October, 

 in the open ground if sufficiently moist, or closely in a bed 

 and kept watered, 90 per cent, of it, as well as Le Conte and 

 Kieffer, will root. 



