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water, for this will freeze and reduce temperature. Water 

 to northeast to east is best. 



WHEN TO PLANT. 

 On the peninsula, plant pears in fall or spring, really 

 a matter of convenience. If you plant in the fall, begin 

 Nov. 1st, sure, as you will avoid early cold, and your 

 trees will get well packed by rains before freezing 

 weather comes upon them. 



DISTANCE APART FOR PEAR TREES, STANDARDS AND 

 DWARFS, WHEN SET IN THE ORCHARD. 



Standard trees should be set thirty feet apart each 

 way, and Dwarf trees should be set ten feet by fifteen 

 feet, although many set them ten feet by ten feet, which 

 is too close. Twelve feet by twelve feet is better than 

 ten by ten ; and many sucessful growers plant twelve by 

 twelve. As I have said before, never plant Standards 

 and Dwarfs together ; put them in separate blocks. 



TO PLANT STANDARDS. 



Plant so as to expose the fruit as much of it as 

 possible to the rising sun. Do this, also, with any other 

 fruit tree and you will get the best color. Dig the hole 

 deep enough to take the tap-root straight, and wide 

 enough to take the laterals without cramping, and also 

 make the hole deep enough to plant the tree as deep as 

 it was in the nursery. Now set the tree, fill up one- 

 third with soil and tramp well, seeing that the roots are 



