PEACH AND THE PEAR. 343 



Question 17. Bartlett. 



Is pear culture profitable with you? It has been 

 very profitable. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. II. 



Question i. Three-quarter Bartletts and the rest 

 divided equally Howell and Lawrence. Neither of them 

 should ever be dwarfed, they do not do well on quince. 

 I would never plant any Dwarfs but the Duchess. 



Question 2. Nothing pays so well as the Bartlett, 

 and as I say above, it should never be dwarfed. The 

 Howell is a profitable pear but not so well known as 

 Bartlett. The two most profitable pears are Bartlett 

 and Duchess. 



Question 3. Good corn land a little stifif is the best, 

 and ordinary rolling land not, exposed to strong winds 

 and not wet in the sub-soil. 



Question 4. That depends in these days whether 

 the blight is bad or not, and no one can foresee that. 



Question 5. I have never had any injury from frost. 

 I think chilly east winds hurt the germ in this climate 

 more than frost. 



Question 6. I have never known it do so in this 

 locality. 



Question 7. I plough early, as soon as the ground 

 is in condition for it, with a one-horse plough, and keep 



