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Winter Nelis should be grown on pear stock, or double-worked on dwarf stock. 

 White Doyenne being the best tree for double working. A slender grower, in 

 order to obtain bearing trees within a few years, it should be top-grafted on good- 

 sized vigorous trees. It often overbears, and requires thinning, otherwise the 

 fruits prove inferior in size and quality. Indeed, too much stress cannot be laid 

 upon the necessity of thinning, not only with pears, but with all other kinds 

 of fruit. 



Fig. 34.— Anjou Pear, and SrECiMtN in tissue paper for Shippim;. 



By all who have tasted the Josephine de Malines when well grown and ripened 

 this will be pronounced one of the very best late-winter pears. The fruit is 

 medium to large, the pink or salmon-stained white flesh, melting and of a deli- 

 cious rose aroma. This succeeds either as a standard or dwarf. Its season is 

 from January to April. Owing to its moderate, irregular growth, it is little 

 propagated in nurseries, and on this account is not much disseminated. 



