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A Brown Beurre bore five hundred and three 

 pears. 



Another Brown Beurre bore five hundred and 

 fifty pears. 



A Crasanne bore five hundred and twenty pears. 



A Virgouleuse bore five hundred and eighty 

 pears. 



The branches of the four last trees spread nearly 

 in the same proportion as the first three. 



A young Beurre, the second year after heading, 

 bore two hundred and thirty pears ; and a St. Ger- 

 main four hundred. 



All the above trees stood upon the same aspect 

 and the same wall, and the fruit was numbered in 

 the same year. A great many pears which dropped 

 from the trees are not reckoned. The trees that 

 were pruned according to the old practice covered 

 at least one-third more wall than the others. 



By the above statement it appears, that the trees 

 headed down bore upwards of five times the quan- 

 tity of fruit that the others did : and it keeps 

 increasing in proportion to the progress of the 

 trees. 



On the 20th of June I headed several standards 

 that were almost destroyed by the canker ; some 

 of them were so loaded with fruit the following 

 year, that I w^as obliged to prop the branches, to 

 prevent their being broken down by the weight of 

 it. In the fourth year after these standards were 

 headed down, one of them bore two thousand 

 eight hundred and forty pears. There were three 



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