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The Ducliesse d'Angoulemc is the exceptional pear, that 

 grows better on Dwarf stock. There are others that pro- 

 duce better fruit on Dwarf. If an amateur Avishes a hirge 

 variety in a small space, to fruit quickly. Dwarfs of some 

 varieties are good for ten or twelve years, if well cared for. 

 The soil for pear trees should not be too rich, if it is, they 

 will grow too rank, be more liable to blight, and less likely 

 to form strong fruit buds. You cannot starve them, how- 

 ever, no more than you can any crop, and expect it to suc- 

 ceed, Keep them thrifty ? 



We would urge upon all, who have not already tried it, 

 the use of a pen or hogsheads, into which all the sweepings 

 9f the house, chamber slops, meat bones, old shoes, leaves 

 and other refuse of the house and garden, which, when 

 scattered around the house, make the yard untidy and un- 

 wholesome, and which would, when accumulated in a mass, 

 and deodorized with fresh earth thrown upon it from time to 

 time, be a surprise, in the amount and richness of the com- 

 post that would be so beneficial for the fruit trees. 



The soap-suds of the washing day of an average sized 

 family, is equal to a wheelbarrow load of manure if emptied 

 around the grape vines and fruit trees. 



Ashes from coal or wood, — from the latter being best, — are 

 excellent for fruit trees. Coal ashes put around trees, say 

 ten inches to one foot high at the trunk, extending back two 

 or three feet, is recommended as a good protection to the 

 roots, like mulching, giving the trees a better start in the 

 Spring. 



Tojp dressing in the Fall is by for the best time and mode 

 of manuring fruit trees, whenever they are not making a 

 thrifty growth. We think that trees when so treated are less 

 likely to blight than where manure is ploughed or dug in. We 

 should not advise manuring heavily at any one time, but give 

 them a slight top dressing every Fall with luell rotted manure, 

 (as straw, or coarse manure, harbors mice), and it will be 

 found more favorable to thriftiness, productiveness, and ex- 



