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The best summer pears are the Bartlett, Dearborns, Seedling, 

 Tyson and Jargonelle. 



Autumn. Washington, Urbaniste, Seckel, Louise Bonne of 

 Jersey, Golden Bilboa, and Heathcot. 



Winter. Beurre d'Aremberg, Glout Morceau, St. Germain, 

 Vicar of Winkfield. 



The pear when ripe is very wholesome, but in a green state 

 precisely the reverse, except they be pared and dried gradually 

 in an oven, by which operation they may be preserved for years. 

 If you have any austere varieties unfit for the table, or cooking, 

 they may be advantageously used for the purpose of making a 

 liquor called perry. 



The pear tree is subject to a disease known as the blight, prob- 

 ably caused by the sting of an insect ; when attacked the leaves- 

 present a scorched appearance ; the limb should be at once cut 

 oflf and committed to the flames. Pruning should by all means 

 commence when the tree is planted, and be continued annually, 

 having in view the ripening of the fruit, which can only be ac- 

 complished by opening the tree sufficiently to admit the rays of 

 the sun to reach it and the air to circulate about it. If this is 

 attended to, there will never be any difficulty in picking the iruit 

 by hand. 



Grafting may be accomplished in doors during the winter sea- 

 son, my usual mode is to take up seedlings of one years growth 

 in the fall, and secure them from the cold winters frost under 

 glass. When the time arrives to graft them, they are cut off to 

 within 3^ inches of the roots, split, and the graft inserted, cover- 

 ed with grafting wax composed of rosin, beeswax and mutton- 

 tallow, and repacked under glass, or in a cellar in the earth, to 

 within half an inch of the top, where they may be left uniil the 

 buds expand in the spring, when they should be taken up, 

 and set out In nursery rows, fourteen inches apart in the row, 

 and the rows four feet apart ; if the ground is well tilled and 

 sufficiently rich, they will grow from four to five feet high the 

 first year. Pears are sometimes, though rarely budded; this 

 operation must be performed in September, sufficiently late to pre- 

 vent them growing that season. Select a shoot of the seasons' 



