Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-21


Editor Of the Spy: In your issue of yesterday
l notice correspondent asks you for list of
the six best varieties of pears, for garden cul-
ture, on the ounce stock. ] DO not profess
goat knowledge on the SUBJECT, though feel that
l know something OF the matter both by ex-
perence and observation. In selecting the
"six best pears" for cultivation, two important
considerations should be kept in view, viz
what kinds are of good quality, and at the same
time sure bearers. There are many kinds of
pears OF fine quality, providing we ever get
enough for taste Then, again, there are
varieties which are very productive, while the
fruit is OF interior quality. II the gentleman
purposes setting but six kinds it is evident
thai he would wish to leave out entirely the
last two classes. AS fer myself, should ! set
either, should prefer the latter; for if there
is anything dislike 10 see on my land, it is
tree that seldom bears. l know OF men now
engaged in the cultivation OF pears, who, for
the sake of having many varieties, will watch
and nurse great thrifty tree, Ter years, while
all they get in return is occasionally half
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Gmined and tasted and talked about by the COM
mittee, Were such trees mine, the first prun-
ing given them would be to saw off the tops
and engraft them to Bartletts Seckes, or
some other good and productive kinds. The
owners Of these trees watch the buds and
blossoms as narrowly as we watch them on
some rare plant that blossoms only once in
seven years.
Pardon this depression, and l will come to
the subject. will say to your correspondent
in the first place, that were l TO set sixty pear
trees consisting of six varieties, l should not
set all dwaris. Your selection [ should not
find much fault with, so far as the varieties are
concerned, but, for myself, l should never set
Bartlett or Secbel on a ounce stock If
you set them so deep as to root from the pear,
it is quite another thing. When l speak OF
dwarts, mean trees cultivated as dwarfs, and
not standards; and if cultivate a standard
by all means give it me on pear stock. The
Seckel and Bartlett always do well on the
pear stock, if well cared Tor, and, if headed in
a little, bear early. l think that nursery.men
now cultivate these two varieties but very lit.
tie on the ounce. The Louise Bonnie de Jer-
sey and Duchess de Angouleme should be
cultivated as dwarfs, Of course, while the Belle
Lucrative and Doyenne d 'Ete do well either
as dwarfs or standards.
Were to set sixty pear trees and confne
myself to six varieties, should select them
as follows, viz: Standards, Is Seckes, Bart.
let's, 7 Vicar of WINFIELD dwarls, 20 Louise
Bonnie dJersey, 8 Duchess d'Angouleme, and
for lew late winter, 2 Easter Beurre. The
Vicar will grow well as DWdrf or Standard,
though l can show you two trees in this
town, one D0arl and the other Standard
standing ten or fifteen feet apart, that have
been set seven years with the same cultivation
and the Standard is now four times a.
large as the Dwarf, and has borne since set
ting more than four times as much fruit
Last year it produced three pecks of splendiC
specimens. The Vicar is a pear of goot
quality, keeps until January or so, and grea
bearer. If your correspondent insists upot
having Dwarts, should recommend, Louise
Bonne dJersey, Duchess d. Angoulene, Vical
of Winfield, Bell Lucrative, White Doyenne
and Buifum, and thirty of the number would
be Louise Bonnie dJersey.
If desirable, in some future number of your
paper, will state how l should SET the sixty
trees, aud cultivate them as dwarfs also, how
should arrange and cultivate them according
to my first list, Of half standards and half
dwaris In looking around, this spring,
Though the snow is yet deep,) find ground
whore l wish TO set about twenty-four dwarf
pears, and about thirty standards and, day
or two since, l sat down and made out my
list, as iollsws-
STANDARDS:
ohttner-l Osband's Summer, Giffard;
taH-2 Washington, Buifum, 10 Seckel, Belle
Lucrative Stevens Genessee, Autumn Paradise
zhowell, ! White Doyenne, / Sheldon;
Winter Vicar Of WINFIELD, Winter Nelis -
total, 30.
DwARFs
FaH-l2 Louise Bonnie de Jersey, 6 Duchess dan.
gOuieme;
a, Wnio-a Clout Moroccan, Easter Beurre total
The above list I have selected, with the
exception OF oue or two new varieties) from
watching the bearing Of the trees and quality
VI Tue pears IN mine and other peoples gar
uehs, irom time to time. 1t will be noticed
hat have selected no Bartletts. and the onlv