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of extra severity, yet, in sheltered places, it sometimes does pretty 

 well. At Tula they say it stands their usual winters, now and then 

 they have a winter when it is injured. There we saw a number of 

 trees looking quite healthy. It is "the" pear there, and yet they 

 say not as productive there as it is fifty miles farther south. At 

 Simbirsk, it is considered not quite hardy. It grows for about teq 



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years, bears fairly, and is injured or killed by some severe winter. 

 At Saratof, we find trees seven or eight inches in diameter of trunk, 

 which appeared quite hardy, and said to bear good crops. Wp 

 find an orchard here of 500 large pear trees, all but one variety in 

 good healthy condition, and this in a climate as cold as the city of 

 Quebec, and so dry that irrigation is necessary for profitable or- 

 charding. Here the Bessemianka was considered one of their best. 

 Again, in central Russia, at Orel, we find a great many trees, 

 both young aod old, and find it considered the best because the 

 most reliable. The same story at Voronesh, At Kursk, in the 



