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it would be from the hot suns at this season of the year. If you 

 could protect the stems on the south side b}' boards or evergreens, 

 or anything of that kind, as already suggested, I should recom- 

 mend it. 



JMy experience with the Flemish Beauty has been that in strong 

 soils there is but little trouble from its cracking ; but I suppose on 

 light soils there is trouble with it 



QuES. Have you had any experience with the Goodale pear? 



Mr, Varxey. Yes. I find them very strong growers. Some 

 of the trees have borne fruit and promise very well indeed, 



Mr. Prince. I have twenty or thirty trees of that variety that 

 have grown two or three years. I consider them promising. 



Dr. Garcelox. 1 have had a little experience in pear growing 

 for the last six or eight years. I have one or two observations to 

 make in regard to the subject, and particularly upon the remarks 

 made by the gentleman from Portland concerning the Flemish 

 Beauty. I have a fine, vigorous tree, young and thrifty. Its 

 growth has been so rapid that I had to cut it back annually for 

 three or four years. It was from the nursery of Mr. Goodale, and 

 I felt that I could rely upon it. The first year that the tree bore 

 the pears cracked so that they were entirely worthless. I could 

 not tell the cause, but supposed it might be the too rapid growth 

 of the wood. My garden has a clay subsoil, with a good, rich 

 soil above it, which had been dressed with ashes, iron and salt, 

 and stable manure in liberal quantities, and some bone-dust. The 

 next season, after trimming quite liberally, the result was the 

 same, and it has been substantially the same every year. There 

 has been an improvement the last two years, and last year was the 

 best. I had it trimmed until I was afraid 1 should trim it to death. 

 It was so rapid a grower that the fruit was a failure. I make this 

 as a reply to the remark tliat the age of the tree had much to do 

 with the cracking of the fruit. 



It seems to )ne that the soil of Androscoggin county is particu- 

 larly adapted to the growing of such pears as can be raised in this 

 climate. My attention was especiallj' called to this matter by a 

 gentleman formerly of York county, but who has removed to Vir- 

 ginia, and is engaged in pear and other fruit raising on James 

 river. We know that the Southern growers can command the 

 market in the earlier part of the season, but are there not varieties 

 which we can raise here profitably to supply the market later in 

 the season, as we do the strawberry ? 



