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amount of attention whicli tliis fruit deserves. The following are a few ex- 
amnles. Dr. C. W. Grant, of Newburgh, gathered four hundred specimens 
from a tree of the Flemish Beauty, only eight years planted, which he sold for 
$:10 or 13 cents each. T. G. Yeomans, of Walworth, N. 1., sold in 18o7, 
nearly his entire crop of one variety, at 13 cents each bv the barrel. In 18G0 
one barrel, filled with one hundred and twenty-five Pears, sold for $35,63, and 
eleven barrels for $315. Very large specimens of Angouleme have, m some 
instances, retailed at a dollar each. Austin Pinney, of Clarkston, N. T ., sold 
some of Ids Pears at 10 cents each, or $18 per bushel. J. Stickney, of Boston, 
obtained" for his crop of the Louise Bonne de Jersey, in 1856, $10 per bushel. 
John Gordon, of Brighton, near Boston, sold Bartlett Pears raised with the 
highest cultivation, with skillful management in preparing for market, for $10 
per bushel, while good ones, with more common care, brought only $3 pei 
bushel Elwanger & Barry, of Rochester, sold their best well-npcned Glout 
Morccau Pears in winter, at $13 per bushel, and others have done the same. 
This sort has often borne at eight or ten years of age, under good culture. 
T. K. Austin, near Boston, (says Col. AVildcr,) set out 500 Dwarf Pears about 
twelve years since. They commenced bearing in about three years, and have 
borne regular and abundant crops ever since. An account was kept of the 
sales from them for the past six years, which amounted to $3,498. They oc- 
cupy about an acre. 
Ellwan<'-cr & Barry, of Rochester, have a plantation of Dwarf \ irgalieus, or 
Doyennes” which gave the fourth year at the rate of $500 per acre, and about 
the same the sixth year. , c T^ c t> r .liuv.mnt 
W P Townsend, of Lockport, had about an acre of Dwarf Pears of different 
sorts', that bore the fifth year from the bud, forty-one barrels selling at $10 
per barrel, or $410 for the acre. „ , , . . 
T. G. Yeomans, of Walworth, N. Y., has large plantations of dwarfs about 
twelve years old. They are ten feet apart, and are cultivated, and the soil 
kent perfectly clean by two horses walking abreast, at less cost than a corn 
crop requires. They have yielded from half a bushel to a bushel per tree, and 
have sold for $14 to $35 per barrel— which is at the rate of $3,fH)0 and upward 
ncr ftcrc. « 
One Bartlett Pear tree belonging to Philo Bronson yielded from thirty to 
fifty dollars worth of fruit per annum for a series of years, when fruit was 
only worth one-half its present value. , . , , 
A Geneva fruit buyer paid $90 for the fruit of three Pear trees, and picked 
the fruit and marketed it himself. The trees stood on the farm now owned by 
F. .v'stow, of Troy, N. Y., sent to New York in the fall of 1868, two barrels 
of Scckel Pears. Tlie purchasers returned him $40 ])er barrel, and at the same 
time sending him word that if he had any more such fruit they would give 
him $60 per barrel for it. . « , , ■ 
In 1857, a firm in Geneva came into possession of a place having ten oi 
twelve Pear trees which had been planted four years. The fruit brought live 
dollai-s per tree per year for several yeare on the average, when fruit was 
much lower than it now is. . , • , 
At a recent meeting of the Geneva Horticultural Society, on the subject of 
profit, Mr. Graves said that .Mr. John Morse, of Cayuga, had been planting 
