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larger in diameter each year until it is eight or ten feet across. I use weeds for 

 mulch if other material is scarce. Sawdust is good, especially after being run 

 through the stable for bedding. 



No manure whatever should be used in planting a pear-tree, but a top 

 dressing of coarse manure is often needed. Some varieties require more food 

 than others. The Seckel is a good eater and digests well. The Anjou is another. 

 But the rule is, not to force or stimulate a pear-tree or a cherry-tree. But no 

 fruit suffers worse from neglect. Choked by sod the pear fails to bear any fruit 

 of marketable value. 



The pear-tree is hardier than the apple and more easily grown. Its culture 

 is never overdone. We could find market for a hundred times the present 

 amount grown — only we must plant with regard to seasonableness. There is a 

 pear glut, some years, during September. Pears that keep long, like the Anjou, 

 Louise, Bosc and Clairgeau, are marketable from November ist until New Year's, 

 and always find ready sale. All in all our grandest market as well as table pear 

 is Anjou. It is an ideal fruit. I pick it in early October and have it till Christ- 

 mas. Another pear that I like well is Gray Doyenne. 



Clinton, N. Y. E. P. Powell, in Garden and Forest. 



THE APPLE CURCULIO. 



X these days of close competition, when so many of us are 

 entering upon the cultivation of fruits for market, only 

 those who succeed in producing the very finest article 

 will attain any real success in the work. One of the most 

 important points in their cultivation is the production of 

 clean and perfectly shaped samples. I^st year, where the 

 fruit was not treated with arsenites, fully one-third of the Bartlett pears in the 

 Niagara district were stung by the Apple curculio, and a very large number of 

 apples were affected in the same way. As a result of this injury a hard knot is 

 formed in the fruit around the part affected, which very much disfigures it. At 

 A. in Fig. 1 5 the reader will see a specimen of a deformed apple, such as is only 

 too familiar to fruit growers who have to cull out such a large quantity as second 

 class, just on this account. 



The Apple curculio resemble the species infesting the plum, but it is a little 

 smaller, being only about a quarter of an inch in length, inclusive of its proboscis. 

 It is further distinguished from the plum curculio by four conspicuous bright 

 red humps on the posterior part of its wing covers. Its name is Anthonomus 

 quadrigibbus, the latter term having reference to these humps. 



Formerly bred only in wild crabs and haws, i( has of late become very 



