OF PEARS. 145 



To those voho have small Gardens, and room only for a fovo 

 Trees, I tvould recommend the follovoing as the most useful : 

 viz. 



Summer Pears. Musk Pear ; Green Chissel ; 

 Jargonelle ; Summer Bergamot ; Summer Bon- 

 chretien. 



Autumn Pears, Orange Bergamot ; Autumn 

 Bergamot ; GansePs Bergamot ; Brown Beurre ; 

 Doyenne, or St. Michael ; and Swan's Egg. 



Winter Pears, Crasanne ; Chaumontelle ; St. 

 Germain ; Colmar ; D'Auch ; L'Eschasserie ; 

 Winter Bonchretien ; and Bergamot de Paque. 



The above will furnish a regular succession of 

 fruit. 



Of the Management of Pear- Trees. 



It will be unnecessary to say much here on the 

 choice of young Pear-trees ; as the rules already 

 laid down are sufficient for that purpose. 



I would advise those who intend to plant Pear- 

 trees, instead of choosing young ones, to look 

 out for the oldest that they can find in the 

 Nursery, and with strong stems ; to have them 

 carefully taken up, with as much of the roots 

 as possible, and carefully planted, after cutting 

 in the roots a little, spreading them as horizon- 

 tally as you can. Then fill up all round the 

 roots with light dry mould ; forcing it in, about 

 those which lie hollows with a sharp pointed 



