18 HARRISONS' NURSERIES, BERLIN, Md. 



smooth, of a fine dark red; with a few streaks and a little yellow farm crop. They will give a much larger yield. The value of a 



ground appearing on the shady side; flesh jellow, firm, crisp, dozen or more pear trees about the home garden or in the fence 



with a rich, high flavor. December to April. All sizes. corners of the field is ten fold greater than that of any commercial 



YORK IilPERIAL (or Johnson's Fine Winter)-Medium size, orchard for they make home attractive and furnish a daily sup 

 oval, angular, skin greenish yellow, nearly covered with bright P^ ^r the family which would not otherwise be secured, 

 red; flesh crisp, tender and juicy, aromatic; an enormous bearer . Dwarf pears should be planted so tnat the point where the bud 



and hangs well on the trees; it is also a good keeper, retaining its « on the Quince root be two inches below the suriace of the ground, 



flavor to the last. We cannot say too much in favor of this apple. &t , a * dard pears should be set so that m their new position they are 



All things considered it is scarcely second to any now grown as a \ hMe *°™ T > & ? th ?J™™ before they were taken from the nur- 



profitable orchard variety. February to April. Four cents extra ****• J h ? ilmt u shox *l d be picked when the stem will part readily 



from other varieties; except 2 to 4 feet grade one year trees 2 cents ^ roni the bran , ch ' ^jl ^ break f 1D g- Pea ^ should be ripened in a 



ex t ra " dark room and not left to ripen fully on the tree. It will pay well 



/-d a t> -dot -ere *° *bi n 'be fruit wherever it is to thick, and to pull off any knot 



CRAB APPLES. ty or poor specimens. 



TnjwcccwnDMT t- -j. , * ,. ... There is an opening for the intelligent pear culturist in many 



. TRANSCENDENT-Fruit large for its class, yellow with a parts of the United State? . The re is not one-hundredth part as 



beautiful rich crimson cheek; flesh creamy yellow, crisp, pleas- many pear trees grown in the country as there are apples. Little 



ant and agreeable. Tree is immensely productive, bearing a good attention has been given to pear growing. For these reasons and 



crop the fourth year; and of the most popular. September and for others the man who makes a special study of pear culture and 



uctooer. who goes into pear growing intelligently and judiciously has a 



K^,A^lf# ^7$$!lffifi6*A good opportunity for success. 



| lyCtl f^tfi|lti>d The following is another sketch taken from a paper prepared 



by Mark O. Shriver, the Baltimore oanner: 



Standard pear trees planted twenty feet apart each way and I regret to say the Bartlett pears of Maryland do not compare 



dwarfs ten by twelve feet apart each way is considered a good either in size or quality to New York or California pears, and as 



distance for planting, but where land is scarce trees can be set a result the packing has not been a success. If we could get a 



thicker in the row and trees cut out when grown so that roots and good size Bartlett pear, free from knots, etc., a large trade could 



branches interfere. The soil for a pear orchard should be some- be done in the canning business on Bartlett pears. Of late years 



what clayey, yet rich sandy soil will produce fine trees with more the Bartlett pear has been neglected and the Keiffer has had the 



color and decidedly more flavor but not so many to the acre. The attention of the canner and I am glad to say that tie demand for 



land should be kept cultivated turning the soil early in the season them is growing. This last season, 1898, cne house in Baltimare 



and continuing the cultivation up to August, then left for the re- packed over 35,000 baskets at an average cost of about 33 cents per 



mainder of the year. Deep cultivation should be avoided and basket. Many of these pears were sold in our markets in competi 



nothing but the gang plow and cultivator should be used in the tion with the California Bartlett pears, so you will observe the eye 



pear, plum or apple orchard, unless it is necessary to give the land is the (sense) member to please, though not entirely as to the 



a shallow plowing early in the season. Anything which disturbs merit of the Keiffer. If properly handled and served on the table 



the roots of the trees is injurious. Do not plant pear orchards ex- it is by far the most attractive fruit in regard to taste. To prepare 



pscting enormous profits but plant them expecting that the pear a Keiffer after it has been carefully canned, it should be baked in 



trees will yield at least double the clear net profits of any ordinary a slow oven until it is slightly browned. It then becomes a tooth- 



