Fruit Varieties 195 



Sweet, Twenty Ounce, Cox Orange, Hubbardston. 

 Winter: — Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, 

 Northwestern Greening, Jonathan, Northern Spy, 

 Yellow, Swaar, Delicious, Wagener, King, Esopus, 

 Spitzenberg, Yellow Bellflower, Winter Banana, 

 Seek-no-further, Talman Sweet, Roxbury Russett, 

 King David, Stayman's Winesap, Wolf River. 



PEARS 



Pears are more particular than apples in the mat- 

 ter of being adapted to sections and soils. Submit 

 your list to your State Experiment Station before 

 ordering trees. Many of the standard sorts may 

 be had where a low-growing, spreading tree is 

 desired (for instance, quince-stock pears might be 

 used to change places with the plums in the diagram 

 on page 189). Varieties suitable for this method 

 are listed below. They are given approximately in 

 the order of the ripening: 



Wilder : Early August, medium in size, light yel- 

 low, excellent quality. Does not rot at the core, 

 as so many early pears are liable to do. 



Margaret : Oblong, greenish, yellow to dull red. 



Clapp Favorite : Very large, yellow pear. A 

 great bearer and good keeper — where the children 

 cannot get at it. 



Howell : A little later than the foregoing ; large, 

 bright yellow, strong-growing tree and big bearer. 



