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decidedly of the opinion that were I limited to one kind 

 I would unreservedly choose the Dwarf pear to plant for 

 profit in field culture on the Delaware and Chesapeake 

 Peninsula. 



I have only been doubtful as to one variety, the Law- 

 rence ; is it not better as a Standard ? A recent visit to 

 the orchards of John H. Hessey in Cecil county, Mary- 

 land, has convinced me that even the Lawrence is all 

 right as a Dwarf, and bears about as regularly, (being 

 full every other year and shy the intervening year,) as it 

 does as a Standard, and the Standard fruit cannot be 

 finer than Mr. Hessey's dwarf fruit. I had four hundred 

 and fifty baskets of Lawrence this year from a little over 

 one hundred Standard trees, which I thought very fine, 

 but Mr. Hessey's, from Dwarf trees, were equally good. 



Pear trees were dwarfed in France, probably, one hun- 

 dred years ago, and in this country have only been 

 planted for about seventy years, and are, I think, con- 

 stantly growing in favor. They demand and admit of 

 high culture, which gives the largest and best specimens 

 of fruit, and this is not always so with Standards. Not- 

 withstanding what may be said to the contrary, they do 

 come in bearing for profit, in just about one half the 

 time that Standards come, barring one or two varieties 

 of Standards. They cost less at first, they take up less 

 ground, they are more sure to stand after transplanting 

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