96 OK PEARS. 



CHAPTER III. 



On Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, 

 Grape Vines, $*c. fyc. 



ON PEARS. 



Par. 108. What has already been said on the 

 culture of apples, will generally apply to pears ; 

 the budding, grafting, pruning, and general 

 management being the same, excepting that 

 they are worked on different stocks. The stock 

 which is generally used, (and which is decidedly 

 the best for standard pear trees,) is raised from 

 the seed of the small wild pear, which like the 

 true crab is more durable than those grown from 

 other pears. It has many years been the prac- 

 tice in France, and several parts of the Con- 

 tinent, to graft pears on quince stocks, and in 

 this country they have been found to answer 

 extremely well as dwarfs, for they come into 

 bearing much earlier than those on the pear 



