Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-03


thoroughly underdrained and trenched, and
made light and rich, some three feet deep; or
if this is not done, the trees should be placed
on artificial mounds of light warm soil, raised
three feet above the natural surface.
4-Improper Varieties. Multitudes of va
rietes come to us from Europe with high rep
utations, and have been planted here, many OF
them failing to give good fruit, and we
have then condemned them without con-
sidering the difference between the com
parative rudeness of our culture, and the
scientific advancement OF theirs. We cannot
yet afford to cultivate in the style they do
When we can we may have all the varieties
they do, in equal or greater perfection. A con-
siderable portion of the choicest varieties which
they raise, can be grown there only on espa-
Tiers, or on trees trained upon wall; and the
Belgian nurserymen furnish their purchasers
with printed directions, informing which kinds
will answer as standard trees in an open expo
sure-and they are only small proportion
OF the whole-and which will answer as pyra-
mids in sheltered places, and which require
to be trained as espaliers-and these are most
numerous of them all. OF the latter, they
direct which varieties must be trained to the
north, which to the south, which to the east,
and which to the west. Experience here, so far
as the thing has been tested, shows that all the
trees which succeed well there as standards in
open exposures will do well here with the same
md 41,of to 1
many of those which are grown there as pyra-
mids. All the rest may as well be thrown
out here, at once, till we are prepared to cult
Vate as they do, twice as deep as we do here,
and till we will grow our trees as low pyramids
and trained espaliers.
Having said this much of the culture, we
will close this article by giving reliable list
OF first class pears, which, experience has de-
monstrated, may be successfully cultivated
here, and which combine, in the largest degree,
the various qualities such as hardihood, vigor
of growth, productveness, and adaptation to
variety of soil in the tree, and size, beauty and
excellence in the fruit. which render them most
desirable for general cultivation, with the kind
of root on which they succeed best. We give
thirty six varieties -
First Ttcelve.
Bartlett pear or ounce.
Belle Luratiye, pear or ounce.
Beurre d'Anjou, pear or ounce.
Dix, pear only.
Doyenne du Comice pear or ounce
Flemish Beauty, pear only
Lawrence, pear only.
Paradise dAutomne, pear only.
Rostiezer, pear.
Seckel, pear only.
Sheldon, pear
Urbaniste, pear or ounce.
Second Tiuetue.
Alexandra Lambre, pear ounce.
Beurre Bose, pear
Beurre Del, ounce.
Beurre Easter,* pear or ounce.
Beurre Gifard pear or ounce.
Beurre Nantais pear or ounce.
Deurborns Seeding, pear.
Doyenne Bonssock pear or ounce.
Duchesse d'Angoueme, ounce only.
Glout MoTceau, pear or ounce.
Louise Bonnie de Jersey, ounce.
Saint Ghislain, pear only
Third TtUelre.
Beurre Superfin, pear or ounce.
Buffum pear.
Church, pear.
| Figue d'Alencon, pear or ounce.
Fulton, pear.
| Kirkland, pear
Langliers Beurre, pear.
| Sieulle, pear ounce.
Swans Orange, pear.
Vicar Of Wnkfeldt pear or ounce.
Winter Nelis pear or ounce
| 1here are other varieties which promise TO
be equal to any of these, and superior to most
of them, but they have not been tested so
thoroughly and long as to be recommended.
yet, with the entire confidence that the above
are. For the benefit of those who wish to
try them, they, and brief notices of some of
the above, will form the subject of another
article.
This name given from the fruit ripening dur
ing the Easter holidays in the spring We are sure
therefore, that no reader of the Spy is ignorant
as to pronounce it with the first syllable short as