New Principles. of Gardening. 
Se, ON tema AA 
Of the Native Place, Name, Expofition, and’ 
Culture of the Pear-Tree. 
ly brought, were Alexandria, Numidia, Greece, and. 
Numancia, as appears by their feveral Names. 
Il. Its Name. The 4rabzans call it Humeeth ; the Italians. 
Pere; the Arabs Cirmetre, or Kemetri; the Germans Bir, Bi- 
ven, and Piren; the Spaniards Pyras ; the French Poire ; and. 
the Dutch Berre. 
Ill. The beft Sorts of Winter Pears (all which the Catalogue. 
confifts of). deferve the very beft Wall and Afpett you can give 
them. N. B. They will not be ripe, till fome Time after they. 
aregatherd. All Baking-Pears may be planted againft North- 
I. F I 1 HE native Places from whence Pears were original-. 
Eaft or North-Weft Walls, as alfo the Rou/fellet, Orange, Ber- 
gamot, Catherine, and other Summer and Autuma Pears. 
The Soil wherein Pears delight, is a rich, fandy, deep. 
Loam, asthe Reverend Mr. Lawrence, in his Pleafure and Pro- 
Jit of Gardening improved, Vol.1. Chap. 7. obferves, “ That a. 
“rich, deep, fandy, mix’d Earth, in fifty four Degrees of Lati- 
* tude, will do more towards accelerating the ripening of the 
 beft Fruit, then a ftiff cold Clay will do in fifty one?” From. 
which it appears, that the fo-much celebrated Mr. Bradley is. 
very much miftaken in his New Improvements of Planting and 
Gardening, Part III. Page 30. Where, fayshe, “ The Soil which 
“ the Pear chiefly delights in, is a wet Earth, inclining to Clay.” 
(And further adds, in the following Words) “ Nay, Ihave feen 
“this Kind of Tree profper extremely in the ftrongeft Sort of 
“blew Clay, which is accounted the worft of Soils; fo that 
“ this Sort, no more than the Apple-Tree, delights in what we 
“ call rich Earth.” Now ’tis true, that Pear-Trees will grow. 
in cold wet Earths, and in Clay alfo ; but, alas! the Fruit they- 
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