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Pop2ilar Pears. 



coast of Massachusetts, has proved a failure, many persons have planted 

 pear trees instead of apple, and almost to the entire exclusion of the latter. 

 The majority of such persons are novices in pear-growing, and may not 

 know the best varieties, such as can be planted with a reasonable certainty 

 of success. It will be the object of this article to give such information 

 to this large class to whom we have referred. We shall begin with that 

 old favorite, — 



The Bartlett. — This variety has been regarded as of foreign origin, 

 which opinion has never been questioned until quite recently ; and the facts 



