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Question 13. Yes, very much. 



Question 14. The fruit was badly injured this year, 

 from a fungus, causing it to be badly specked all over ; 

 especially Bartletts. 



Question 15. Of my own knowledge I cannot an- 

 swer. 



Question 16. No answer. 



Question 17. (i) Bartlett. (2) Beurre d'Anjou. 

 Peaches evaporate much easier than pears. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. 4. 



Question i. Standard, 600 Bartlett, 300 Lawrence, 

 100 Kieffer. Dwarfs, 500 Bartlett, 500 Duchess. 



Question 2. I prefer Dwarfs because they are larger 

 and less liable to blight, except Lawrence and Kieffer, 

 those as Standards, 



Question 3. I would take loam or sandy soil and a 

 northern slope. 



Question 4, We have the Standard and the Dwarfs 

 14 years old, and they are doing well at this time. 



Question 5. Spring. 



Question 6. Do not think that will hurt them with- 

 out killing the tree. 



Question 7. Plough early in Spring ; 2.^ in. is plenty 

 deep. Cultivate, after one ploughing, up to the loth or 



