1^2 OF PEARS. 



Standards on the same border with the above, two 

 of which were St. Germains ; the old tree was of 

 the same kind. One of these trees *, twenty 

 years old, had five hundred pears on it, which was 

 a great crop for its size ; so that there was on the 

 old tree, which had been headed down not quite 

 four years, two thousand three hundred and forty 

 pears more than on the tree of twenty years 

 growth. 



When the men numbered the pears, there was 

 near a barrow full of wind-falls at the bottom of 

 the old tree, which were not included. 



Platp: VIII. is a correct drawing of an old de- 

 cayed Beurre Pear-tree, restored from an inch and 

 a half of bark, which now covers a wall sixteen 

 feet high. In the year 1796, it bore four hundred 

 and fifty fine large pears, and has continued in a 

 flourishing state ever since. The letters a, «, a, 

 represent the fruit buds for the present year ; 

 b, b, b^ are those forming for next year ; and c, c, c, 

 the old footstalks that bore the fruit last year : the 

 small buds are beginning to form, which produce 

 fruit the second year ; and d, d, are the foreright 

 shoots as they appear before they are cut, which 

 must be at e, close to a bud, and sloping towards 

 the wall as much as you caii, leaving them as 

 regular as possible all over the tree ; you will then 

 have a regular crop of fruit from the stem to 



* This tree was about six years old when I planted it four- 

 teen years ago. 13 



