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but succeeded when double grafted. Mr. Cabot, of Salem, Mass., 

 had grafted it on a large healthy stock, yet. it did not bear for fourteen 

 years. 



Mr. Earle said, that in his neighborhood it did well on pear ; he 

 had not seen it on quince stock. He had not found it such a tardy 

 bearer ; had grafted it on a tree of Rushmore's Bonchretien, and it 

 bore fruit in three years. He had known other instances of a like 

 nature ; indeed, he said, it was its early bearing and productiveness that 

 first induced him to propagate it. He knew trees that produced three 

 or four barrels every year, the fruit always fine, fair, and never cracked. 



B. V. French, of Braintree, Mass., said that eighteen years ago he 

 had a St. Germain tree of which the fruit did not please him, and he 

 grafted the leading centre limbs with Dix, and the side limbs with 

 Wilkinson. He had seen no fruit on the Dix yet, whilst he had bush- 

 els of Wilkinson. 



C. M. Hovey said, that near his residence in Cambridge, there was 

 a tree that bore two barrels of fruit in a year, and supposed it was 

 grafted in 1832 or 3, and commenced bearing in 1843 or 4. He said 

 that some time ago the place on which it stands had changed owners, 

 and the new occupant, not knowing its fine qualities, used it as a cook- 

 ing pear ; recently, however, he sold them for $14 pr. barrel, and he 

 knew them to be resold again in Boston market for $28 pr. barrel. 

 He said, that like most of the American pears, it did not succeed well 

 on the quince. 



Samuel Walker said it had borne with him in two years on quince 

 double worked, and he considered it one of the finest pears in the 

 country. 



The President said he had trees that were purchased of W. R. 

 Prince some sixteen years ago, and they had only commenced bearing 

 a few on the top branches two years since, but that he had grafts set 

 in old trees that bore in six years ; with him it always cracked badly. 

 At Beverly, he said, they were always fair, while at Lynn, a few 

 miles distant, they uniformly cracked. 



C. M. Hovey referred again to the tree near his residence ; he said 

 there it was always fair, while Beurre Diet and White Doyenne near 

 it occasionally cracked. It stands on a ridge of loamy soil, on a sub- 

 soil of clay. 



