34 THE SUBURBANITE'S HANDBOOK 



PEARS. 



The same rule applies to pears as to apples, only pears are 

 dwarfed by working on the quince, by root pruning and pot culture. 

 They may be grown as bushes, pyramids, cordons or half standards. 

 Pyramids and several forms of cordons are best suited to the pear. 

 Walls and trellises also suit this fruit. This fruit is greatly improved 

 by dwarfing and is worthy of all the care bestowed on it. Their 

 season of ripening may be greatly hastened or prolonged in the 

 cooler parts of the United States by winter protection ; or be forced 

 by training into cordons and bent back to enable their being covered 

 with a hotbed sash in the spring to protect their blossoms from cold 

 rains and prevent the polen being washed off the flowers. They may 

 be grown as bushes, pyramids, cordons or half standards, but pyra- 

 mids are the most beautiful and specially adapted to the suburban- 

 ite's use, especially where a roomy lawn is available. 



As some of my suburbanite readers may like to obtain a money 



Trained Pear Tree, only 6 inches between, 

 branches, 2 ft. from "out to out" 



Fig. 33 



