50 PEARS AND GRAPES. 



has taught will grow and ripen good crops in Mas-sachusetts soil and 

 climate ; for profit not over ten or twelve kinds sbould bo planted ; as 

 dwarfs and half standards on quince have proved failures, select 

 trees on Pear seedling roots ; perhaps, a few kinds may be doubly 

 worked. Head or prune back the shoots so as to form a symmetrical 

 top, cleanse the bark of the Pearbark louse (Lecanium Pyri) and the 

 scurfy Bark louse (Aspidictus furfurus) so that the young shoots shall 

 not be covered with such parasites so soon as a bud swells into a tender 

 shoot. 



We say to planters, do not order trees from self-constituted tree 

 agents roaming through New England with colored pictures of fruits, 

 for it is a common practice of such to take orders of men ignorant of 

 Pomology at certain prices for certain kinds to be delivered at some 

 future time ; the agent gets his hundreds or even thousands subscribed 

 for, he then goes to some large nursery at a distance, contracts for cer- 

 tain rows of trees left standing after all the marketable trees have been 

 culled out, takes them up, sits down with his order-book, labels his trees 

 with such names as are ordered, delivers his trees, takes his money and 

 that is the last seen of him, as he prefers a new field for the next oper- 

 ation ; the buyer rarely detects the cheat, as most of the trees die ; but, 

 forsooth, should a tree live it will be some three or four years before 

 the scurvy bush produces the first specimen, and the huyer finds he 

 was sold. Planter, go to some honorable nurseryman, (for some such 

 there are,) select your trees, see they are properly taken up, leaving as 

 long a tap root as possible (for the Almighty made a taproot for a pur- 

 pose) take the advice of the nurseryman, plant your trees and hold him 

 responsible for quality of trees and kinds of fruit, — succeed, 'and enjoy 

 a thrifty, fruit-producing Pear orchard, the fruit ripening in succession 

 through the entire season, and of the best kinds that Massachusetts can 

 produce, with as ruddy a bloom as Eve blushed when Adam first spoke 

 to her in Paradise before she meddled with the fruit business. 



The Committee on Pears and Grapos make the following awards : 



PEARS. 



12 varieties 5 each : 



1st prem. to Alvah Crocker, Fitchburg, HojtIs o:h Insects. 



2d " A. B. Holden, Westminster, S2 00 



6 varieties o each : 



1st prom, to J. M. TwitchcU, Fitchburg, 2 00 



2d " Dr. II. II. Erigbam, '' 1 50 



•5 varieties o each : 



1st prem. to Dr. Geo. Jewctt, Fitchburg, 1 50 



2d " Walter Hey wood, " 3 00 



