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ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. 8. 



Question i. Beurre, Giffard, Manning's Elizabeth, 

 Bartlett, Lawrence, same do well as Dwarfs. 



Question 2. I prefer the two together, 4000 on ten 

 acres. On ten acres plant 1000 Standard and 3000 

 Dwarfs. Standards twenty feet apart, Dwarfs ten feet 

 between. 



Question 3. Good, sandy land, highly improved, not 

 too much in valley. If too low, liable to blight. 



Question 4. No one knows. I suppose many penin- 

 sula pear trees are one hundred years old ; I know Dwarf 

 Bartletts thirty years old, doing well now. 



Question 5. Spring. 



Question 6. As many pear orchards do well in 

 New England, suppose the trees are not injured by cold 

 weather. 



Question 7. Early in Spring ; then cultivate often 

 through season. This for young trees, up to ten years 

 of age ; after that, I believe, they should not be ploughed 

 so much. 



Question 8. Stable manure, bone meal, kainit and 

 lime. 



Question 9. Standards ; cut out water spromts. 

 Dwarfs ; head back ^ in August. Never hand-thin ; two 

 long a job for me. 



