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in this latitude. It bears every year, but the crop is 

 heaviest, as a rule, every other year. It must be watched 

 closely in the detention house, and if you see a small, 

 black speck near the calyx or blossom end of the fruit, 

 that pear is not going to keep, and should be marketed 

 at once. 



Vicar of Winkfield. — A late pear, for cooking and 

 preserving. Every tree blights and communicates it to 

 other trees in the orchard. Never touch it to plant on 

 the Peninsula, and I would like to see every tree of this 

 variety now planted here, dug out, root and branch and 

 burned. The finest specimens I ever saw were grown 

 by John Bacon on Union street. New Castle, on an 

 isolated tree in a grass plot. Like most isolated pear 

 trees it appears to thrive whether cultivated or not. 



Winter Nelis, Standard. If on quince, must be 

 double worked ; a Flemish pear and highly esteemed, 

 North. On the Peninsula, it drops its foliage, and is not 

 satisfactory. A grand winter pear where it grows well, 

 and I recommend its further trial here. 



Easter. — A very late winter pear, not much tried 

 here, and ought to succeed, but is not sure as to quality 

 or quantity. It is very fine in the spring when well 

 ripened. Yellow, green, brown and russet. On quince, 

 only. 



