120 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUEIST. 



purpose of taking steps to give effect to the law just enacted for the 

 prevention of the spread of the yellows in the peach. This law 

 provides that any five freeholders in any municipality may petition 

 the council of such municipality, or of any adjoining municipality, for 

 the appointment of an inspector. The duty of this officer shall be to 

 examine all orchards wherein yellows are supposed to exist, and to 

 give notice to owners to cut down and burn diseased trees. The 

 owners are tlien compelled to destroy such trees within seven days 

 after such notice has been served. This meeting took the initiative 

 in this matter, by ap])ointing a committee of five in each municipality 

 of the peach growing district, who should be urged by the Secretary 

 to take immediate steps in their respective localities for the enforcing 

 of this Act. 



THE DOYENNE D'ETE TEAR. 



BY J. M. MC'AINSH, NISSOURI. 



Tlie Doyenne d'Ete is the most profitable variety of pear I grow. 

 The fact of its being so, however, is not so much due to any merits 

 it may possess as to exceptional circumstances. It is the earliest good 

 pear we have, ripening about the first of August, a time when in this 

 section of the country fine fruit is rather scarce, strawberries, cherries 

 and other early fruits having about gone by, and fall pears, plums, &c., 

 not yet being in the market. The tree is a fair grower, and although 

 it cannot be classed among the very hardy sorts, still it can be grown 

 successfully throughout a large part of Ontario. It bears abundantly 

 when quite young, either as a standard or dwarf, but except when a 

 small tree is wanted for the garden I see no inducement to grow it as 

 the latter. A larger quantity of fruit can be grown with less expense 

 on standards. The fruit is of small size, but as a dessert pear it ranks 

 first quality. When ripe it is of a bright yellow color, and the best 

 specimens are usually shaded with red. Those who are growing pears 

 for family use should plant a tree of this variety — probably one will be 

 sufficient. So long as it is grown in small quantities as a market 

 variety, it will probably prove profitable, but if it be grown extensively 

 the market will soon be glutted, for it is too small to be profitably 

 used for any purpose save as a dessert fruit. 



