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ning or pickling or preserving. Lawrence is a 
delicately sweet, medium-sized pear, of a clean, 
bright yellow, and is ripe in December. It is pref- 
erable to grow this sort grafted high in old trees. 
Anjou is another prince of pears, when we con- 
sider its keeping qualities, its high flavor, its rich 
color, and the ideal form and growth and health of 
trees. Picked in October, it will keep until Janu- 
ary, and be in prime condition for the holidays. 
Josephine is a medium-sized pear, and might be 
taken for a small Anjou; it is in prime eating in 
April. Patrick Barry is said to be the best of the 
winter pears for very late use, but I have not yet 
fruited it. You will see the charm of having a bin 
of winter pears that will keep as nicely as winter 
apples. If you grow but one or two sorts, I should 
select Anjou for early, and Josephine for late. 
I do not wonder that such men as Wilder and 
Downing became pear enthusiasts. It is a noble 
fruit, and every year we are able still to produce 
improvements. Among the best of the newer sorts 
are Koonce for very early; Fame, Alamo, King 
Carl, Ozark, Triumph, originating in the midwest; 
and Rosney, Vermont Beauty, and Worden’s Seckel 
of Eastern origin. On your ten or twenty acres 
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