PEAR TREES AS BUSHES. 



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PEAR TREES AS BUSHES ON THE QUINCE STOCK. 



It is only very recently that this mode of cultivat- 

 ing pear trees has struck me as being eligible, from 

 having observed the fruit of some of the large heavy 

 varieties, such as Beurre Diel and Beurre d'Amanlis, 

 so liable to be blown off pyramids by even moderate 

 autumnal gales. The trees also of these and several 

 other fine sorts of pears are difficult to train in the 



Tig. 5. 



pyramidal form ; they are diffuse in their growth, and, 

 with summer pinching, soon form nice prolific bushes, 

 of which the preceding figure (Fig. 5), from nature, 

 will give some idea. This summer pinching is quite 

 necessary in bush culture, and is performed by pinch- 

 ing off the end of every shoot as soon as it has made 

 four or five leaves, to three full-sized ones ; when the 

 branches become crowded they should be thinned by 



