Title: The fruit grower's handbook (microform) : a concise manual of directions for the selection and culture of the best hardy fruits in the garden or orchard
Identifier: biggleberrybooks131 (find matches)
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Waring, William G
Subjects: Fruit-culture
Publisher: Boalsburg, Pa. : (s. n. )
Contributing Library: Penn State University
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62 THE PEAR. THE PEAR. Comparative outlines of four varieties of Pear, natural size. Wlilto Nolis. 63
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n pr CO I Reiirro Rose. other, brought from Holland by Gov. Stuyvesant, and planted in 164/ IS now living m New York City. A tree in Holme Lacy, Ilerefordshire, England, covers half an acre, the pendant branches taking root like a banyan : it has more than once yielded 30 bar rels of perry in a season. A tree near Vincennes, Illinois, ten feet in girth, produced 184 bushels of pears at one crop.—Pear wood is very compact and fine grained, and is much used by turners. Uses.—Many kinds are superior for baking, stewing, preserving marma ade, cS:c. fcr these purposes fine dessert pears are not suita- ble. 1 erry is made from coarse autumn pears, as cider from ap- ples, and commands a large price. - Pears, judiciously used are a most excellent and healthl'ul article of diet. Iron is a most im portant element in tlie blood; this, and the delicious flavor of Dears are Nature's guarantee for their usefulness." Foirler Pears sell at high prices, reaching instances of 25 cents each, JM or .^2 per dozen, ami ,^10 to $15 per barrel; five dollars is a common price, and .^2 is the lowest for ordinary fruit and this where pears are most plentiful and best known. (71) Soil, Manure, a:c.-Pears may be grown in any soil excepting cold stagnant, wet; or very dry, sandy ground. (48) The trees do not bear transplanting well when over three years growth unless prepared by root pruning. (50) Dwarf trees on quince riots are very patient of removal; trees in bloom have been transplanted and have matured their fruit. Besides the usual manures, (39) pear trees require a little iron and phosphate of lime (bone dust) Ap- ply manure early in the fall. ' ^* * The Blight.—Tliere is scarcely any other serious affection of the pear tree than tins, which is sufficiently formidable. It is attribu- ted by some to minute insects, and by others, to a disease in the sap a sort of vegetable apoplexy. There is more than one form of blight, and It may be'produced in both the ways mentioned • the latter is the most c(mimon. The appearance, or rather result' is a sudden withering, blackening and death of the leaves and shoots or l.ranchcs, or part of them, during summer. It is no better umler- stood than the potatoe disease. If trees grow luxuriantly, late in tJie fall, after a rest, they generally suffer. (17) There is but one course to pursue when the tree is affected The whole diseased part and a foot or two more of the branch, fdown to sound untainted wood,) should ),e immediately cut off and put into the fire. It this is promptly done, the disease is mostly checked it delayed, it often spreads downward and destroys the tree To prevent blight, choose trees with roots disposed horizontally • (^dwarfs are rai-ely attacked.) (4S) and plant in dry, healthy, well clrained soil. Some varieties, of moderate regular growth, seldom blight in any situation. Prune no large limbs off. Allow branches

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