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ning or pickling or preserving. Lawrence is a 

 delicately sweet, medium-sized pear, of a clean, 

 bright yellow, and is ripe in December. It is pref- 

 erable to grow this sort grafted high in old trees. 

 Anjou is another prince of pears, when we con- 

 sider its keeping qualities, its high flavor, its rich 

 color, and the ideal form and growth and health of 

 trees. Picked in October, it will keep until Janu- 

 ary, and be in prime condition for the holidays. 

 Josephine is a medium-sized pear, and might be 

 taken for a small Anjou; it is in prime eating in 

 April. Patrick Barry is said to be the best of the 

 winter pears for very late use, but I have not yet 

 fruited it. You will see the charm of having a bin 

 of winter pears that will keep as nicely as winter 

 apples. If you grow but one or two sorts, I should 

 select Anjou for early, and Josephine for late. 



I do not wonder that such men as Wilder and 

 Downing became pear enthusiasts. It is a noble 

 fruit, and every year we are able still to produce 

 improvements. Among the best of the newer sorts 

 are Koonce for very early; Fame, Alamo, King 

 Carl, Ozark, Triumph, originating in the midwest; 

 and Rosney, Vermont Beauty, and Worden's Seckel 

 of Eastern origin. On your ten or twenty acres 



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