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stems, whence horizontals were led curvingly to the distance of 
twenty-five feet on each side. The double stem and curved position 
of the branches caused early and constant fruitfulness much more 
certainly than if the stem had been single, and the branches straight. 
These baking pears require free stocks, and a stronger description 
of loamy soil than other pears. 
There are three or four other sorts of baking pears which the wri¬ 
ter is acquainted with, viz. the livre or pound pear, black pear of 
Worcester, &c.; but they are all inferior to the three sorts described 
above.— Rogers's Fruit Cultivator. 
Pears for Perry.— This class of pears need not be described, 
as they may be had from any nurseryman, if ordered by name. 
Everybody may rely on the opinion of Mr. Knight, as an excellent 
judge of such fruit, and who has recommended the following as of the 
best quality for the manufacture of perry ; viz. the Barland, ITole- 
more, Longland, Oldfield, and the Teinton squash. These are the 
sorts most in repute in Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and other 
perry-making counties in the West of England. It very often hap¬ 
pens, that old trees bear no fruit but at the extremities of the 
branches; and when these encroach on the trees on each side of 
them, either one or other requires removal. In this case the writer 
advises, rather than remove the pear trees, to prune the branches 
back to near the stem. From the bases of these, a new birth of 
young shoots will be produced; and which, if trained along to fill 
up the vacancy made by the removal of the old branches, will soon 
become fruitful, and, in fact, a renovation of the tree. When such a 
proceeding becomes necessary, it is best done gradually; that is, 
one-third of the branches may be cut back in one year, as many 
more in the next, and the remainder iir the third .year: this will be 
found better than cutting the whole back at once. In the general 
management of pear trees, the author is fully persuaded that mode¬ 
rate growth, and consequent prolificacy, may be given, by paying at¬ 
tention to grafting upon proper stocks, planting in light and shallow 
soils, prevention of unnecessary growth by disbudding in early 
spring, and the least possible application of the knife; and, by avoid¬ 
ing deep, rich, over-moist borders, will together accomplish the 
wishes and expectations of the planter, and render unnecessary all 
those fanciful and contorted, or rather distorted, schemes of training, 
ringing, disbarking, &c., so much recommended by writers, and re¬ 
lied on by some practitioners. A tree may certainly, with proper 
treatment, be kept in moderate health and fruitfulness, without 
doing violence to either its natural habit or constitution.— Ibid. 
