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For fine specimens of wall pear trees grafted on the 

 quince, I may refer to those on the west wall of the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick. 

 These are now more that forty years old, and are pictures 

 of health and fertility, thus at once settling the question 

 respecting the early decay of pear trees grafted on the 

 quince ; for it has been often, very often, urged as an 

 objection to the use of the quince stock, that pears 

 grafted on it are, although prolific, but very short-lived. 

 I have seen trees in France more than fifty years old, 

 and those above referred to may be adduced to confute 

 this error. 



