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can market from forty-year-old trees, one bushel in 

 three. 



Of the positron for a cherry orchard, and of its 

 likings in the way of soil and climate, nothing better 

 can be said, than PaUadius wrote fourteen centuries 

 ago : " Cerasus amat cccli statum frigidum, solum 

 vero positionis humectce. In tepidis regionibus parva 

 vrovenit. Calidum non potest sustinere. Montana, 

 vel in colUbus constituta regione Icetatur" * which 

 means that cherries want a cool air and moist land. 

 Heat hurts them, and makes them small, and they 

 delight in a hilly country. 



The Pears. 



r|^H.K condition of the pears was far Averse than 

 _1_ that of either cherries or apples. Had they 

 been seedlings of the .native fruit, they would have 

 shown more stalwart size, and better promise from 

 good treatment. There was, I remember, a long 

 weakly row of the Madeleine, shrouded in lichens, 

 and with their lank, frail limbs all tipped with dead 

 wood. It is an enticing fruit, by reason of its early 

 ripening, and its pleasant sprightly flavor ; but its 

 persistent inclination to rot at the core, in most soils, 

 makes it a very unprofitable one. I forthwith cuj 



* Lib. xi.. Tit. 12. 



