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ZoAR Beauty, or Superb. Color, light yellow; form 

 varies ; size, 2 ; use, table ; texture, juicy, sugary ; season, 

 July and August. 



Eemarks. — N"ative of Ohio. Tree a vigorous grower, 

 with dark brown shoots. This pear, from its great nat- 

 ural vigor, with some others like it, as the Seckel, Buffum, 

 etc., would not require so rich a soil as pear trees do in 

 general. The j)ear tree, as a general rule, requires a 

 rather moist and tenacious soil : not, however, wet and 

 -saturated with stagnant waters. If placed on a loamy 

 or clayey soil, abounding in the requisite inorganic ele- 

 ments (phosphate of lime and j)otash), with pure water 

 percolating beneath at a depth at which it can merely be 

 reached by the extreme roots, this tree will be as hardy, 

 strong growing, and durable as the oak. The deficiencies 

 which occur in most soils may be, to some extent, arti- 

 ficially supplied. Animal bones, urine, the sweepings and 

 droppings of the roosting poultry, or of the poultry-house 

 and 3'ard, and guano, are the principal sources from which 

 the surplus must be supplied. — Probably the very best 

 mode of preventing ani/ species of blight, either the fro::<n 

 sap Might, the rinikcr blight, often occurring in the insect 

 blight, or the Jire blight, is to bury about their roots lai'ge 

 quantities of unground bones; time and weather breaking 

 them down as rapidly as the trees call for supplies ; the 

 surface of the ground being also dressed with ashes and 

 refuse lime. Ho one should set out one pear tree more 

 than he can at suitable intervals cultivate with care, and 

 can at certain times supply, in some form, with the requi- 

 site food. 



