The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-11

Sometime last summer when driving
through Montgomery county. Pennsvl
vania, something new came to view in
the shape of a lot of Kleffer pear trees
planted along the roadside fence. per
maps some twenty-five trees in all. says
Joseph Meehan in Practical Farmer.
was led TO inquire of the owner of The lana
what his object Was in planting the trees
there, and whether he did not think he
would lose much of the fruit by It's being
taken by passersby. To these questions he
replied cheerily that, in the first place
the roadside line was selected as taking
less room from his land as a large part
of the limbs would be over the road: sec
ondly. thai there were but few boys in
that neighborhood. nor We're there likely
to be for some time. Further than his
/ he said the kieffer was thoroughly unip-
| teresting to the taste even up to the very
last moment of their being on the tree
as they require 10 be ripened after being
/ gal hered; and sim another reason for the
! planting was that. even If paseersbv
/ did take some OF the fruit he could I'm a
/ measure afford IT, as The half of the tree
| would be overlapping the public road. thus
/ saving him that much and. There is a
/ good deal of truth in all this but il is
/ only true because of the pear being the
! kiener This particular farmer would
| hardly care, I am sure to set along his
roadside row OF Bartlett pears nice
plums good eating apples or other fruit.
/ even II in The country where boys are but
/ few. The question of boys has very much
TO do with it, as all men know what their
| own INC nations We're. and how hard II
used to he TO pass fruit tree of TEMPT
/ ing appearance The Kieffer pear cannot
be eaten in midsummer as many other
! pears can. ana many hard winter apDle
! would in time become known 10 bows as
! being useless to modest. and these trees
! could be used where reasons seem to Can
! Tor their planting I'm such places bv The
! roadside Where near cities the fruit
/ grower is all the time studying 10 remove
/ ms trees further ana further from the
/ roadside. Wheelmen now ride for miles
ana miles from the cities and farms
/ which We're heretofore considered secluded
| are now known 10 many II was but last
| summer that an acquaintance of mine
| some fifteen miles from city found a
! predatory youth in his straw berry patch
| The youth tried the "hail fellow wen met
| plan ON the farmer seeming to imply nv
MS manner that il was quite the thing 10
/ jump the fence ana sample the berries
for Information sake" He found. how
ever, thai quite different views were held
10y the owner OF the fruit. 4 severe leo
ture was read 10 him. and though Iet 20
he was not so sure that he would not hear
more Of ~. bur II seems he did not part
~. | think be,Ause his friends were NOT
unknown 10 the fafm' r. Even though fruit
may not De- wanted from them. these trees
should not be placed along roadsldeS. as
they are sure 10 be- mutiated by passers-
| by who VIII eudeavur to obtain the fruit
: II VIII he much better ana more conducive
| 20 ones peace Of mind 10 set frui, trees
out of sight ana place shade trees
along he roadside where giving shad. Is
the object. And II az the same time the
making Of profit from The timber in the
course of time * desirable there ar. siicb
trees as hickory. ASH. walnut. catalina
iarcn aud as many more Of equal value
which could be placed there Aside from
this view the naples are excellent side
/ walk trees. especially The Norway and fhe
/ sugar and for wide roads. the silver.