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For the ten varieties for profit, I give yoil a list*of the 

 best varieties and most profitable in the whole catalogue of 

 the pear family. There are other varieties worth raising, but 

 without much profit. 



Bartlett, bears early and abundantly, a great favorite, al- 

 ways sells, sold this year $2 to $2.50 per bushel. 



Seckel, the highest flavored pear known, productive, and* 

 brings good price, sold for $2 to $2.50 per bushel. 



Sheldon, a fine grower and a goo(J bearer, sells for the 

 highest price, sold for $2.50 to $3 per bushel. 



Beurre Clairgeau, an early abundant bearer, a magnificent 

 market fruit, large and handsome, sold mine this year for $3 

 per bushel. 



Beurre Bosc, excellent and high flavored, ranks high with 

 fruit dealers, sold for $3 this year per bushel. 



Beurre d'Anjou, a fine pear, productive and profitable, no 

 orchard is complete without it, sold for $2.50 to $3 per bushel. 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, one of the best and most popular 

 in the list, sold $2.50 to $3 per bushel. 



Louise Bonne de Jersey, very productive, good grower, 

 finds a ready market, sold for $2 to $2.50 per bushel. 



Lawrence, an excellent bearer, one of the very best winter 

 pears, sells high, selling for $2.50 to $3 per bushel. 



Vicar of Winktield, on account of its great productiveness, 

 ripening when most all others are gone, it finds a ready sale 

 at $2 to $3 per bushel. 



It gives me great pleasure to answer your list of questions 

 bearing on the cultivation of that most excellent fruit, the 

 pear. I am never at home so much as in the midst of a 

 thrifty bearing pear orchard, but to do anything like justice 

 to the subject, would require more time and space. In an- 

 swering your questions, however, I give you that which I 

 have learned from practical experience, though not on a very 

 large scale. I have a little orchard of 75 trees, all Stand- 

 ards, save some Duchesse. I grew the ten varieties I named 

 in the list for profit. I can rely on them even when apples 



