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Dwarf Pears of the right sorts, and under right management; 

 come quickly into bearing. The most prolific sorts give some 

 returns the second year, and more afterwards. Among the dwarf 

 pears which bear soon, are Louise Bonne of Jersey, Doyenne d'EteV 

 White Doyenne, Giffard, Fontenay Jalousie, Josephine de Malines ; 

 etc. The following sorts Sear nearly as early on pear stock, viz. 

 Bartlett, Seckel, Winter Nelis, Washington, Onondaga, Howell, 

 Passe Colmer, Julienne. 



Grapes afford fruit soon usually beginning to bear the second 

 and third year. The Isabella, the Hartford, Diana, and- Delaware, 

 are particularly recommended for this purpose at the north, and the 

 Catawba may be added for the Middle States, wherever it does 

 not rot. 



Dwarf Apples should not be entirely overlooked in the list of 

 early bearers. Half a peck per tree is often obtained the third year 

 from the most productive sorts. 



A good supply of all the preceding will be sufficient to furnish a 

 family with these wholesome luxuries from within a year or two of 

 occupying entirely new premises ; and will not only add greatly to 

 the comforts and attractions of home, but contribute materially to 

 the uniform health of the occupants.* 



* FRUIT vs. MALARIA. Residents in the Western States, and other regions where inter- 

 mittents and similar diseases result from malaria, state that a regular supply of ripe, home- 

 grown fruit, is almost a sure preventive. Eat the fruit only when fully ripe, and eat only 

 moderate quantities at a time, and little need be feared. The residents of such regions 

 should, therefore, not omit the earliest opportunity for a supply. Piant large quantities of 

 strawberries for early summer they will bear abundantly a year from the time they become 

 established. Plant many currant bushes for these are a most healthy and excellent fruit 

 very hardy and if in abundance, will last through all the hottest parts of the summer. The 

 Doolittle and Orange raspberries are profuse bearers the former very hardy, the latter 

 generally so, but should be laid down and covered with an inch or two of earth for winter. 

 The Rochelle blackberry, if pinched in when three or four feet high (about midsummer ,> 

 will bear abundantly, and prove hardier than if the canes run up without control. The 

 Delaware, Clinton, and Concord grapes, are early and hardy, and will bear in two or three 

 years from transplanting. Dwarf apples, on the Paradise and Doucin stock, will flourish in 

 any locality, and begin to bear profusely in three or four years, and on the Paradise stock 

 often in two years. Some varieties bear early on common stock ; such, for example, as the 

 Dyer, Lowell, Early Strawberry, Sops of Wine, Oldenburgh, Porter, Belmont, Jonathan, 

 etc. ; but these will, of course, bear much sooner as dwarfs. The Bartlett, Washington, 

 Julienne, Flemish Beauty, Beurre d'Amalis, Onondaga, Howell, and Seckel pears, produce 

 early as standards, and the Louise Bonne of Jersey as a dwarf. Houghton's gooseberry 

 grows with great vigor, is very hardy, and in two or three years affords almost solid masses 

 of berries on the branches. Such fruits as the 'above should be planted out on every new 

 place, as indispensable to health as well as to comfort and economy ; and emigrants to new 

 countries should take a supply with them, as the best medicine chest they can provide. 



