FRUIT-GROWERS’ REPORT. 
PEARS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. 
419 
BY JAMES BARB. 
The following list embraces most of the varieties I have in 
cultivation, of which I fruited upwards of twenty varieties the 
past season, ail choice except one unknown variety. I grew 
from one to one hundred specimens on each tree. From my 
experience I would recommend to be grown on pear stocks the 
White Doyenne, Flemish Beauty, Early Bergamott, Beurre, 
Goubault, Swan s Orange, Belle Lucrative, Oswego Beurre, 
Buffam and Stevens’ Genesee. For dwarfs I would recommend 
the White Doyenne, Beurre Goubault, Buffam, Belle Lucrative, 
Oswego Beurre, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Seckel, Easter Beurre, 
Yiscomte d’Spoelberch, Doyenne d’Ete, Vicar of Winkfield, 
Tyson, Bloodgood, Beurre Lanlier. 
llie Glout Morceau and Duchess d Angouleme are hardy 
and good growers, but have proved shy bearers; perhaps they 
will improve in bearing when the trees become older. My trees 
were set in the Spring of 1855. 
I prefer standards to dwarfs, and I think by planting on high 
situations, with perfect natural or artificial drainage, and heading 
the trees low, not more than two feet high, w r e can succeed in 
raising pears in Wisconsin nearly or quite as often as we can 
apples. I prefer a 'Western or north-western slope to any other. 
The dwarfs require more care than most people are willing to 
give; they must receive clean culture, and the roots well mulched 
in the fall, to protect them through the winter; they should be 
planted deep enough for the union of the pear and quince to 
be from six to eight inches below the surface. I have some 
eight inches deep, that do well. 
My location is on top of a ridge, about sixty feet above and 
about sixty rods from Rock river; the soil is sandy clay, with 
a stiff clay subsoil interspersed with sand and lime pebbles, 
resting on loose gravel, at a depth of from three to five feet. 
I prefer standard trees, viz: those worked on pear stocks, 
branched low, to those dwarfed by working on the quince; but 
I can give the right hand of fellowship to dwarf apples. 
