The daily gazette., 1881-08-09
COMING FRUITS.
A Large Crop Of Pears Grown by
CulttvatOrs This Year = Peaches,
Melons and Grapes.

n SEOR VI EthEb UTOWh Nv
CnltivatOrs This Year Peaches,
Melons and Grapes.
Scores of new varieties of pears have
been added to the already large list OF
varieties OF this fruit. The pear tree,
unlike the peach tree,is long lived, and
alt though 1t will commence bearing
fruit when 1t is five or six years old, it
will continue to grow and to bear fruit
for forty years or longer. Most of the
many Thousand trees which have been
planted, have been growing all these
years. The blight has destroyed crop
after crop, but the trees still continue
to make growth. While there are no
great pear orchards that will begin to
equal in size the great peat b orchards,
yet it is possible that the fruit beaying
capacity of the pear orchards may
equal that of the peach orchards, be-
cause the trees are much larger and
the GUILTY. ton of this fruit is much
more universal than that of peaches.
Wherever pear tree is found this
season it is full of fruit. There are
more than one hundred varieties of
choice pears. But the most popular
Of all, of course, is the Bartlett, and
thl fruit will be sold very cheaply tor
several weeks of the season. Doubts
less there will be times when choice
Bartlett pears will be sold for less than
W per barrel. The Seckel, Flemish,
Beauty, Duchess, and Clapp's Favorite
come next in order of p pularity, and
there will be great abundance of all
these varieties. During this week the
Southern Bartletts will be ripe.
The commencement of the second
week of August brings no good peach
es to the market from Maryland or
Delaware, although it is time for the
Tfoths, or the third variety, to ripen
and to be here from lower Maryland
From the Western Shore of Maryland
by the way of Baltimore, there are
quite good many peaches to come to
the market, and tomorrow there will
be several hundred boxes from there of
naturally ripened fruits, mostly Troths,
There will be some Hale's Early from
Huntingdon county, N. j., and during
the week good many of this variety
from the Hudson River country. This
peach is the earliest variety known, and
those which have been naturally ripen-
ed Cor grown on perfectly healthy
trees) present very attractive appear
ance. They have but little color, being
only slightly red on one side, and the
fruit itself, when thoroughly ripened,
is of slight pea-green color.
Although peaches will be scarcer this
season than for the past twenty years, IL
Is not at all probable that they will sell
for any fabulous prices, as pears will be
substituted for them. During the past
thirty years great attention has been
paid BY the votaries of Pomona TO the
cultivation of this fruit In good condi.
tiDn for ealing. There will be some
northern Bartletts shipped to the mar
kets, but they will be too green to be fiji
for use, aud are only pulled to relieve
the overburdened trees of their greal
load. The Bloodgood, spicy, juicy
and mellow pear, not very large, anG
with rough and uninyiting skin, bu
really a fine eating pear, will be sold al
this week for from So to $4 per barrel
and the common Bell or cooking pea
will soon be sold SO low that its ship
ment here will be Improbable.
| Plums are making their appearance il
the markets, but they are mostly eg!
! plums, which, If allowed to remain OF
| the trees until they ripen, would not b,
ready for the market for two weeks yet
But this fruit rots SO quickly that grow
ers pick 1t before 1t IS ripe, and tn,
Gamers become the only purchasers o
IT. Hundreds Of barrels of green egl
plums aud green Lumbard-a copper
cplored plam, picket before it begins tt
show its color-are. put into cans ant
shipped to the tropics and to the minin:
regions OF the West, where they find
ready market. Ripe green cages may bi
expected by the 10th instant, although
good many duripe ones will doubles
be shipped to the market before tina
time.
| There Is every assurance OF q mos
abundant grape crop from the lakes t.
the Gulf. Many packages of them al
rive daily from the mountains Of Mort
Carolina, where the cultivation of thi
fruit Is conducted with great intelligenc
and energy, and fine grapes of the earl
black varieties can be had IN two-and.s
per pound. The Concord grape Gan
there is no better variety grown, is large
ly cultivated In Delaware and Mary lane
aud many thousand pounds of this VI
riety will be ready for shipment fror
there before the end Of this month.
Watermelons and canleloupes, or mus
melons, will also be very abundant, q
this has been favorable season for the
cultivation. And it is gratifying I
know that the sweet poteto crop prom
ises to be the largest and best grown !