The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-14

lfrom Moores Rural New Yorker, July 3, IS
Pear culture.
MKssRs. EDITORS IL saw in the Rural o!
the 18th inst, long article from Lewis r.
Allen on Pear culture, and as am somewhat
interested in growing pears | will give my
experience. Nine years ago | set out one
thousand pear trees, half dwarf, and the 9th
or half standards. The dwarfs commenced
bearing the third year, and have never failed
to give n crop since. About the sixth wear
my standard trees commenced bearing, and
last year, from about 500 Of the trees, 1 oh
tanned over 400 bushels Of pears, having sold
that number, besides good many bushels
eaten in the family. The fruit, on account
OF sickness, was obliged to sell in this city
and Buffalo, at 81 der bushe. Had taken
them to New York city, MS | designed to do.
! could have obtained SIS per nbarrel for
them. The dwarf trees, ut nine years old
bore more fruit last year than standards Of
the same age, many of my dwarf trees giving
from bushel and half to two bushels
Some varieties, too, nre much better when
grown on the ounce root. So satisfied was
| with my success, that have been induced
to plant two thousand more dwarf trees, and
now ] have over 1000 pear trees growing on
less than eight acres of land Among these
are 1900 White Doyennes, $40 Louise Bon
nc de Jersey and the balance Seckel, Bartlett,
Osband's Summer, Denrborn's Seeding
Duchesse de Angouleme, Easter Beurre, Vi
car Of Winfield, and one or two other sorts.
Now, if friend Allen is correct in his views,
have made sad mistake.
You will discover that report the product
of 500 trees out of the 900 planted. The
cattle came into the back end of nv lot and
destroyed about one-half of my trees soon
after planting. then put upa picket fence
seven feet high, around my orchard, and
have not been troubled since.
think If friend Allen had kept the grass
out OF his orchard his trees would not have
died nor have been eaten up with mice, and
II he had washed the trunks every spring
with soft soap and water be might have been
able 10 make more favorable report. lam
sorry that he feels so fretted and sore at the
criticisms on his pear article. We ought To
BIO willing to have the whole truth appear.
| rather think | could grow pears near
Buffalo, though much Of the soil is too low
and Hat for orchardiDg. They are ms easily
grown as apples, at least this is my expert
ence, and more certain to bear every year.
My dwarf trees, nine years planted, produce,
one year with another, a bushel TO tree.
and If can make the other twenty-five hun
dred do tho same they will give me 5000
bushels of pears every season from eight
acres of ground, which at the prices they will
now sell for in New York, will bring 81 200.
Reduce this one-half, and it will be SO 100.
or, suppose the price or quantity Of fruit
should reduce the sum first stated three.
fourths. then would have $4,000 from the
eight acres Of ground, which it seems to me
should satisfy any reasonable man.
In conclusion | will say that challenge
the United States to produce handsomer
trees, either dwarfs or standards, than are
growing in my orchard on Genessee street,
Rochester, where friend Allen and the rest of
mankind can see them.
Rochester, June, '5s. LEWIS BuRrls.