NOTES ON PEARS. 
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NOTES ON PEARS. 
BY DR. McVICKAR, OF MILWAUKEE. 
Madeline —A standard on Pear stock, planted in 1848, has 
never blossomed, but I have eaten the fruit from other sources 
and found it wanting in sweetness and flavor. Consider its 
chief merit to be its earliness. Tree a strong grower, but has 
not proved hardy with me. 
Dearborn’s Seedling —Have it on Pear stock, 10 years 
planted in strong calcareous clay, underdrained. It has borne 
regularly and abundantly for a number of years past. Fruit 
always fair, and ripens gradually without rotting at the core. 
Quality always very good. I have met with no better in its 
season, and can find no fault with it except its small size.— 
Fruit to be picked while still green, and ripened in the house. 
By picking the crop at different times we have it in eating for 
three or four weeks from 1st of September. Free, hardy and 
good grower. 
Bartlett. —Of a number of trees of this variety with me 
on the Quince, all were more or less injured, and some killed by 
the hard winter of 1855-56, and I should rank it as a tender 
tree. Fruit always large handsome and profitable, though not 
quite so high in quality as beauty. 
White Doyenne.— This variety from 1847 until the winter 
of 1855-56, seemed as hardy as one of our forest trees, and I 
so spoke of it in my report to you about that time. But that 
winter was too severe for it, and fine large Pyramids on Quince 
well furnished with fruit spurs throughout the whole tree, had 
them entirely killed, and many branches injured a foot or two 
at their extremities. In the underdrained borders none of the 
trees were killed, but in the undrained ground they were de- 
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