Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-25
rsc re-, six Pears.

The best SIX Pears.
Among over a thousand varieties of the
pear cultivated 10 this country, it would he
easy 10 name a hundred which have certain
reputation Tor exceleuce, either general or
local From such multitude to select half
dozen kinds, best suited for NATURALIZATION
IN $ small garden, would be difficult task,
even were the object Of the cultivation definite
ly sci forth But, without this explanation,
the enquiry is LETT altogether vague and idle,
like the scaool-boy's QuesUons-"What is the
length o; a string p or "How big is piece of
chalk g. Noanswer at all can be given, in
deed, anal the purpose Of tic ojtirdtor is known,
One man desires, above all things, trees like
the Ba l7i.'a T's'oa, &c, which will produce
tosslabie quality OF fruit with but little care.
Another viii have no trees Of which the nat
uTal habit of growth is not ornamental, Thus
the Jybaajste and the Bosfjessr are both excel
lent fruits bat, rs regards the beauty OF the
trees, no pruning, or tying, or grat'ing-in of
limbs IAN ever shape the latter into that grace
i'll pyramidal form which nature of her own
accord always beslows upon the former, As
well might any one attempt to train camel
to initiate The indescribahle elegance which
distinguishes pure.booded Arabian horse, as
TO force one OF these "sprawlers" into an orna-
mental tee. a Third pear-fancier is mainly
ambitious to eclipse his neighbor at some hor-
ticultural exhibition he aims at display and
cares for little else. Another eultivates for
the market, and must raise such varieties, as
the BenTe Claisgeag for example, which spe-
cially attract by their external appearance.
y fifth "goes in for nothing but new kinds,
although, in nine cases out OF ten at least, he
! gets only his labor his pains For the pres
ent, then, let US put the question thus What
are the best six pears for cultivation on ounce
| in a small garden, with view to supply
/ family with succession OF excellent dessert
fruit ? Promising that the soil is to be of gen.
| eIOus depth, with adequate understandings, if
| the subsoil is of a reteniive nature; that the
| cultivation is 10 be thorough; the pruning,
and the thinning-out OF fruit to be properly
attended to, and nothing TO be neglected, we
would, with considerable hesitation, name, as
half dozen pears OF first rate excellence fol
general cultivation, as dwars, The following
succession, ripening in the order they are
numbered, from about the middle OF August
to about the middle OF December
l. Beurre Gifard, 4. Beurre d'Anjou,
>. Belle Lucrative, 3. urbaniste,
5. L. Bonnie de Jersey, c. Duchesse.
OF the pears that succeed on ounce and ri
pen before the Bemre Clifford, either the Mad
eleine or the DQyenne d Etc may be recommend
ed; but the extremely early varieties of this
fruit are OF comparatively little value, being
very perishabe and coming at the season of
other summer fruits.
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into eating after the Duchesse the reader is
recommended to take the Winter Neiis, the
laurence (both Fundamentally the Glout Nor.
ceau, or the Easter Bemre. But these latter
two can he successfully cultivated only where
the soil is suitable.
One word, in conclusion in regard 10 these
often publishrd lists of fruits Taking into &C.
count differences Of soils, aspects, length of
the growing season, the treatment which the
trees receive, and the objects Of the cutiva-
ton, some of which have been specified
above, it will be manifest that implicit reli-
ance should not be placed upon any such cata-
logues, from whatever source they may eman-
ate. The most we claim, therefore, for our
above named half dozen pears, is that they are
| all excellent varieties
Now that we are upon this subject, it may
be stated here that Hon. NJ. ?. Wilder, of
Dorchester cul,iyates over eight hundred va
re;ies OF the pear. This gentenlan's life long
experience in the cultivation of this fruit be.
ing as good authority as any other in North
America, we give the names of the kinds
which he has recently planted, in an orchard
OF twenty five hundred trees, designed es-
pecialy to produce fruit for the market
These are 400 B. dAnjou, 200 Ba6am, 200
BouSSock, 200 Bartlett: the remaining 1900 con-
sstng, in about equal numbers, OF Merriam,
UrJaniste L. Bonnie de Jersey, Belle Lucrative,
Flemish Beauty, Bemre Bose, Vicar Laurence,
Winter NeiiS, &C., 8'c. 1t is important, how
ever, to bear in mind that while some these
last named are best cultivated on ounce,
others of them succeed only when grated on
their own seeding stocks. AS for those old
favorites, the Bartlett and the .Seckei, we should
hardly recommend their cultivation as dwarfs,
unless--as was above advised Tor the Winter
Nels aud Ld,Crence-they were double-worked
say upon the GfoW Morceau or some other
variety that makes a strong growth directly
in contact with the ounce. j.