FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 
Standard Pear Trees, Two Years from Bud. The Chase Nurseries 
PEARS. 
Our soil at Geneva is particularly adapted to the growth of the pear, and 
we can recommend our trees as being healthy and vigorous. 
RIPENING PEARS. 
Pears require to be gathered from the trees and ripened in the house ; if 
allowed to ripen on the trees, they are nearly worthless. 
Summer and autumn pears should be gathered as soon as the earliest and 
premature specimens are observed to ripen ; gather the best matured specimens 
first, and a short time afterward the remainder of the crop ; keep them in clean 
boxes or drawers until ripe ; if 3'ou wish to retard the ripening, keep them in 
a cool place. 
Winter pears shonld be allowed to hang late upon the trees, then gathered 
and treated the same as winter apples ; that is, barrel them and keep in a cool 
cellar until they mature. After they commence to ripen, they may be kept for 
a few days in a warm room to good advantage. 
Pears are cultivated as standards, worked upon seedling pear stock, and 
as dwarfs, worked upon French quince stock. 
Standard pears thrive, with moderate care, on most any soil moderately 
rich and well drained. 
Dwarf pears require rich lands and annual pruning to give their best results. 
