By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 81 



In the future treatment of my young Pear trees it is my 

 intention to give them very nearly the form of the old tree I 

 have described, in every respect, except that these will neces- 

 sarily stand upon larger stems, which I think advantageous : 

 and I shall not permit the existence of so great a number of 

 large lateral branches. In both cases the bearing wood will 

 depend wholly beneath the large branches which feed it ; 

 for it is the influence of gravitation upon the sap which 

 occasions the early and exuberant produce of fruit. 



I scarcely need add, that where, in old trees, it is not 

 meant to change the variety, nothing more will be necessary 

 than to take off wholly the spurs and supernumerary large 

 branches, leaving every blossom which grows near the end 

 of the remaining branches, or that the length of the depen- 

 dent bearing wood must be different in different varieties. 

 The Crassane, the Colmar, and Aston-Town, will require the 

 greatest, and the St. Germain probably the least length. 



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