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The remarkable size and quality of Dr. Kenney's fruit, 

 raised in same city, attracted much attention. Flemish 

 Beauties, that grow so badly cracked in most parts of the 

 county, and are considered almost worthless, were there of 

 great size and very fair. He states that they are of the 

 finest quality, and the richest pear he has, in a variety of ten 

 or twelve kinds, all of which produce the same good quality, 

 according to their kind, as those exhibited. 



His manner of setting out and treatment of his trees after- 

 wards, probably had a considerable efiect upon the result, 

 for when he set out the trees, about sixteen years ago, he had 

 holes dug about four feet in diameter, and two and a half 

 feet deep, then tilled in about one foot of compost, bones, 

 old shoes, lime and old scraps of iron, then covered that 

 with about six inches of soil, then set his trees and "filled in 

 with rich soil, which in Lawrence, and all about there, is the 

 common soil." In addition to enriching the soil around the 

 trees by spreading on sink deposits every two or three years, 

 he also spreads on the ground over the roots; not very near 

 the body, about a pint of iron turnings, or filings, with half 

 a pint of salt, around each tree, every four or five years. 

 His trees are protected from all winds except from the east, 

 and he prunes ofi* half the previous year's growth in the 

 spring. 



We think that iron is of great benefit to pear trees, as well 

 as other kinds of fruit trees, our Chairman having used the 

 sweepings of a blacksmith's shop, where horses are shod, 

 containing old nails, bits of iron, hoof chips, &c., around 

 apple and pear trees, with an occasional dressing from the 

 sink drain, to much advantage, as regards the size and fair- 

 ness of the fruit, having readily disposed of what Clapp's 

 Favorite and Bartlett pears he had to sell, at from $2.25 to 

 $2.50 per bushel, and several bushels of "Duchesse" at 

 $3.00, which in contrast with apples, in such abundance that 

 twenty to forty cents per bushel were the selling prices, with 

 two hundred bushels for cider, and notwithstanding the So- 



