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SELECT LIST OP PEARS 



Numbered nearly in the order in ivhieh they luill ripen in 

 any given soil and latitude. 



Most of the kinds will succeed dwarfed upon the quince, 

 perhaps especially the varieties named from 1 to 11. See 

 page 206. In a few kinds the size and quality of the fruit 

 will be improved by this process, particularly Louise Bonne de 

 Jersey, Beurre Diel, Duchesse d'Angouleme, and some others. 

 The ordinary time of their ripening at New York accompanies 

 the figure and description given below. 



Heretofore the orchard cultivation of winter pears, either for 

 eating out of hand or cooking, has not been extensively pur- 

 sued ; a few of the larger kinds of the latter class have fo-r 

 many years been raised for exportation to the West Indies and 

 the extreme South. The cultivation of both classes might, no 

 doubt, be profitably extended. Those calculated for cooking 

 only, as the Winter Bell, Cattillac, and Black Pear of Worces- 

 ter, may be successfully raised in localities and on soils too cold 

 for the production of the others. 



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