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questions which I sent to most of the intelligent pear- 

 growers of the Peninsula, and which will be found in 

 their appropriate place in this book. As to my own 

 opinion, gained from personal experience, and from 

 observation and intercourse with pear- growers, it is. that 

 pear growing is profitable, and a grand industry for the 

 Peninsula farmer — if— (and that if must be spelled with 

 a great big 



i) 



he be alive to every detail and to every surrounding of 

 the business. In this it differs from no other kind of 

 farming, or from no other kind of business, for I think 

 the great source of the want of success of men in all 

 manner of business, is this lack of attention to detail ; for 

 detail comprises everything necessary to make the suc- 

 cessful business man ; labor, energy, thrift, experience, 

 quick perception, and to these traits might be added, 

 the obeying of the laws of God and man. 



There is no royal road to success in pear-culture. It 

 is a fruit, of all other fruits, that demands a grower's 

 every attention and his most guarded care and watching. 

 It is so subject to disease and injury from pests of the 

 insect order, that for some parts of the year it requires 

 attention even in the dark hours of the night, and the 

 man who is not alive to all this need have no high hope 

 of succeeding in its successful cultivation. I have seen 

 some statistics which prove that of all the Pear Trees 



