. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. TEAR PEAR 1251 our fruit from the orchard, baskets holding % bushel, and cart into packing house on low wagons, the platform of which is made of 2-inch hemlock plank 18 feet long and hung as low as will permit a 2-foot front wheel to turn under; being low it is very convenient to load from the ground. A man can
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. TEAR PEAR 1251 our fruit from the orchard, baskets holding % bushel, and cart into packing house on low wagons, the platform of which is made of 2-inch hemlock plank 18 feet long and hung as low as will permit a 2-foot front wheel to turn under; being low it is very convenient to load from the ground. A man can readily load 70 to 80 baskets with- out getting on the wagon, and the packing house floor is about the same height as the low wagon for conven- ience of unloading and reloading on other wagons for carting to markets. John S. Collins. .....â ;-#/. J. â â â ^^" 1692. Packing Pears for export. Dwarf Pears. âDwarf Pear trees are produced by budding the Pear-wood upon the French quince. The point of union should be so low that, when the young trees are transplanted into the orchard, this point will be 3 or 4 inches below the surface of the ground. The quince, being naturally of a slower growth than the Pear, will, by the moisture of the ground and its protec- tion from the drying effects of the atniosphere, be kept more nearly equal to the size of the Pear. As the tree becomes older the Pear will throw out Pear roots at the union, which will give increased vigor and strength to the tree in its years of maturity when producing heavy crops of fruit. The soil best adapted to dwarf Pears is a rich loam, with a subsoil which requires thorough underdrainingâ a tile drain within 5 feet of every tree in the orchard would be thoi'ough draining. The soil should bie good strong corn or potato ground, and kept in such condi- tion of fertility from year to year, for which purpose good, well composted, barnyard manure has no equal, butmay be supplemented by other fertilizers âas
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