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CHAPTER XXI. 



The treatment of the Pear Tree against a Wall. 



THE soil most suitable for Pear trees is a 

 good strong loam, and if too retentive of 

 moisture it should have a little gravel or 

 scrapings from a public road mixed with it. 

 The border must be made dry, &c. agreeably 

 to the directions given under that Chapter. 



The trees should be planted twenty-five 

 feet apart for a wall twelve feet high, and 

 more or less in proportion to the height of 

 the wall. Maiden plants of one year old are 

 the most proper to be chosen for planting, 

 (See directions, in taking up, pruning the roots, 

 and planting the tree, under their respective 

 Chapters.) 



The most beneficial mode of training the 

 Pear is the horizontal ; the vigorous habit of 

 the tree requires it, in order as early as possible 

 to bring it to a fruitful condition. When it 

 occurs that one trained after this method 

 still continues unfruitful for several years 

 after planting, the branches must be trained 

 in a pendulous manner, and more or less so 

 according to the luxuriancy of the tree, but 

 always commence the training in the hori- 



