AND ITS DISEASE. 8$ 



market at West Chester, and also in Philadelphia, 

 baskets of first class Bartlett pears, in fine condi- 

 tion, by the side of Delaware peaches ; the pears 

 were going off slowly at fifty cents per basket, 

 while the peaches were readily bringing seventy- 

 five cents. As a market fruit for production and 

 profit the pear pales before the peach the expense 

 and extra culture required in producing good pears 

 is never returned in the product to half the profits 

 of the peach and again the long time required be- 

 fore it is brought into a bearing condition, is one 

 of the great drawbacks to pear culture. 



He who plants pears, 

 Plants for his heirs. 



But notwithstanding all these disadvantages to- 

 be met with by the enthusiast in pear culture, I 

 have, at different times, set out some 3,000 trees, 

 dwarf and standard, for orchard culture, but they 

 have not been satisfactory. The pear is sold by 

 the single specimen, while the peach is sold by the 

 crate or basket. Many of the large estates in- 

 Lower Maryland and Delaware, which were orig- 

 inally purchased for a few dollars per acre, are now 

 fortunes to their owners. On my last visit to the 

 Ray bold orchards, at Delaware city, I was informed 

 by the Colonel, that he had then some 700 acres in 

 peach trees, and some 500 acres were then in bear- 

 ing. Crosby Morton, on the Chester river, at Round 

 Top, had some 1,000 acres in trees, and he informed 



