. Descriptive catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees : grape-vines, small fruits, shrubs, plants, Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 18 W. T. Hood 6 Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue Select Pears The cultivation of this noble fruit is extending as its value is appreciated. The range of varieties is such that, like apples, they can be had in good eating condition from July until early spring. The melting, juicy tex
. Descriptive catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees : grape-vines, small fruits, shrubs, plants, Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 18 W. T. Hood 6 Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue Select Pears The cultivation of this noble fruit is extending as its value is appreciated. The range of varieties is such that, like apples, they can be had in good eating condition from July until early spring. The melting, juicy texture, the refined flavor and the delicate aroma of the Pear give it rank above all other fruits except the grape. But the Pear, like most things highly desirable and valuable, cannot be had with- out attention, labor and skill. The relative price of the apple and the Pear being about as one to ten, show at the same time the superior value of the latter and the greater skill required to bring it to perfection. One of the most important points in the management of Pears is to gather them at the proper time. Summer Pears should be gathered at least ten days before they are ripe, and autumn Pears at least a fortnight. Winter varieties, if they will hang so long, may be left until the leaves begin to fall. At the present time the demand is for choice fruit; inferior fruit brings scarcely a remunerative price, but the best will always pay well. Pears should have the best kind of cultivation ; the fruit should be thinned so as not to over-produce. Care should be used in selecting for market only the best specimens, and with such effort and system on the part of the grower there will always come a satisfactory profit. The Pear succeeds on most soils, but does best on a rather heavy loam. Budded on its own stock it makes a standard tree, and on the French or Angers quince a dwarf—the former being best adapted to large, permanent orchards; the latter (requiring garden culture and sever
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