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iruit is of large size, yellow with a red cheek ; flesh yellow, juicy, 

 with a fine aromatic flavor. Eipens just after the Early Craw- 

 ford. 



Van Bueen's GtOLDBN Dwarf. — We have not fruited this 

 variety, but heheve it to be weU adapted to pot culture on 

 account of its dwarf habit of growth. The fruit is said to bo of 

 medium size, of a golden yeUow color with a red cheek ; flesh 

 yellow, firm, juicy and of good quality. It is a clingstone, a 

 very undesirable character in the peach. 



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A strong clay loam, resting on a dry subsoil, is the very best 

 soil for the pear tree. In such a soil it will be healthy and long- 

 lived, and the fruit wiU be of the highest flavor. However, it 

 wiU thrive in sandy and gravelly soils so long as they are dry; but 

 in cold, wet soils the trees soon become diseased and worthless. 



The cHmate in. some parts of the Dominion is too severe for 

 the successful culture of this fruit. In the Province of Ontario 

 the Ottawa and St. Lawrence districts have been found too cold 

 for most of the varieties in general cultivation, and in the Pro- 

 vince of Quebec the pear can be successfully raised only in 

 favored localities. 



There is a disease, popularly known as the fire-blight, which 

 attacks the pear tree, killing sometimes only the smaller shoots, 

 sometimes entire branches, and not unfrequently the tree itself. 

 Some varieties are very liable to this disease, as the Glout Mor- 

 ceau, and none are wholly exempt. The cause of it is yet un- 

 known, nor has any certain remedy, or even preventive, been 

 discovered. It usually makes its appearance in midsummer, 

 blackening the bark and withering the leaves of the afiected 

 branches, giving them the appearance of having been scorched 

 with fire. Prompt amputation of all the affected parts is be- 

 lieved to arrest the progress of the disease, and seems sometimes 

 to save the tree. Those trees which are growing very luxuriantly 



