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CHAPTER VII. 



OF PEARS, 



Different Sorts of Pears defcribed—Of Planting, Heading, 

 Pruning, Kc.— Experiments on old Trees — A comparative 

 Statement of the Produce of Pear-Trees, by the old and new 

 way of Pruning and Training — Of Trees headed down — 

 Remedy for the Canker, SCc. 



The Cultivation of the Pear is, undoubtedly, of confider- 

 abie antiquity ; for Pliny mentions no lefs than twenty kinds, 

 and Virgil five or fix. 



Linnaeus arranges Pears in the fourth feclion of his twelfth 

 Clafs, along with Apples and Quinces. 



The Pear-tree comprehends feveral varieties, ripening m 

 fucceflive order from July to October. 



The 



