PEACH AND THE PEAR. 34I 



side my garden fence. They have never been tilled nor 

 mowed around, but have born splendidly. One year I got 

 over one hundred dollars from the eight trees. They have 

 been free from disease. 1 have become very much dis- 

 couraged with pears during the last three years, and have 

 almost concluded to plant no more. The slugs have 

 nearly all gone from my trees, but the deadly fire-blight 

 has taken their place, and I can't tell where it is going to 

 end. The leaf-blight has also given me a great deal of 

 trouble. It does not kill the trees but causes them to 

 shed their leaves, and thus ruins the fruit. Some of the 

 nicest pears are not worth growing on account of the 

 leaf blight. The tree blossoms, and sets a fine crop of 

 fruit, but in August every leaf drops off, the fruit remains 

 on the tree, but never ripens. All these trees I graft 

 with Bartletts. So you will see that between the graft- 

 ing for the leaf blight and the digging up for the fire- 

 blight, I have had a sorry time with pear trees. Had I 

 known as much before I began with them as I do now, 

 I hardly think I should have gone into them as largely 

 as I have. But I have made a bad bargain and am 

 trying to make the most out of it I am able. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. lO. 



Question i. One thousand Standard Bartlett, one 

 thousand Dwarf Duchess. 



