Pears. 3 5 



The following list may safely be accepted as safe, with 

 our present knowledge of Colorado : 



Slimmer Bartlett, Clapp's Favorite, Osborne Summer. 



Fall Flemish Beauty, Louise, Bonne de Jersey, Buerre 

 d' Anjou, Duchess de Angouleme, Seckel. 



Winter Lawrence, Winter Nellie, and Vicar of Wake- 

 field. 



SOUTHERN COLORADO. 



The following opinions are by residents of Southern 

 Colorado: 



W. A. HELM : I do not doubt the final success of this 

 delicious fruit in the Arkansas Valley, if not elsewhere. I 

 have fruited for six years the Duchess, Bartlett and Quince 

 pear. 



JESSE FRAZIER: I have sixty or seventy pear trees, 

 some planted as long ago as 1868, having trunks ten inches 

 in diameter. I have one pear, the name of which I do not 

 know, which is of small size, is a rapid grower, prolific 

 bearer, and early maturer, ripening the last of July. 



D. M. ROSE: I have had very good success in growing 

 pears, and I regard Colorado as well suited to this fruit. I 

 have raised bushels of pears of the 'standard kind. I pre- 

 fer the Flemish Beauty to most others, as it has long, slen- 

 der limbs and ripens its wood better than the Bartlett and 

 some other varieties. Still I have had good crops of Bart- 

 letts, though some of this variety have winter-killed with 

 me. 



R. T. CRAWFORD : Pears do not do well on very sandy 

 soil. They need a clay soil. I would recommend the fol- 

 lowing varieties : Lawrence, Sheldon, Flemish Beauty, Win- 

 ter Nellie. 



In the opinion of the El Paso Horticultural Society, 

 dwarf pears were deemed unworthy of attention ; they would 

 not do well, owing to the fact that the bark of dwarf fruit 

 trees was thin and did not winter well. 



