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some manure on the surface, laid in a circle round the 

 stem ; and the second year a shallow basin, two feet in 

 diameter and four inches deep, should be dug round the 

 stem, and filled with some manure about half-rotten. 



Fig. 13. — Bnsh pear tree in the garden of J. Meadows, Esq., 

 Wexford. Photographed September 13, 1872. This tree, 

 worked on the quince stock, is now 22 years old, 6 feet 

 high, 3 feet through the centre, and 100 inches in circum- 

 ference It bears abundantly every year, and, a few days 

 after this ' photograph was taken, 189 handsome pears 

 were gathered from it. 



This basin thus filled will keep moist even in the most 

 dry and hot weather, and will become full of fibrous 

 roots. This is also an excellent method of renovating 

 pear trees that have exhausted themselves by bearing 



