. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. IDENTIFICATION OF PEAR VARIETIES 5 For example, Early Seckel usually does not grow so tall as Seckel, nor Seckel so tall as Worden Seckel. Often a difference in the average stature of trees in a nursery row is the first indication of a varietal mixture. Some varieties such as Gorham are inclined to be more branchy than others even as one-year trees (whips). Man\- varieties usuallj- grow few lateral or side branches until the second jear following budding unless such growths are forced because of some inju
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. IDENTIFICATION OF PEAR VARIETIES 5 For example, Early Seckel usually does not grow so tall as Seckel, nor Seckel so tall as Worden Seckel. Often a difference in the average stature of trees in a nursery row is the first indication of a varietal mixture. Some varieties such as Gorham are inclined to be more branchy than others even as one-year trees (whips). Man\- varieties usuallj- grow few lateral or side branches until the second jear following budding unless such growths are forced because of some injury to the terminal by insect damage, accidental breakage, or summer pruning. The degree of lateral branching the first year from the bud varies from year to year with a single ^'ariety, depending, probably, on environ- mental Figue 1. Type of Growth. 1. VERMONT BEAUTY — Not leafy 2. WILDER — Leafy 3. EWART — Crooked grower Certain shoot characteristics are important (Figure 2.) The diameter or stoutness of shoots may be a valuable identifying character. Shoots vary from stout as in Clapp Favorite to slender as in Bantam. The degree of zigzag, or alternate change in direction of growth at the nodes, is of some significance. Shoots may be straight as in Lawrence to distinctly zigzag as in Bantam. The length of the internodes, spaces between buds along shoots, may var>' from short as in Law- rence to rather long as in Bantam. The lenticels on shoots are particularly valuable. With different varieties, lenticels vary in number, size, prominence (whether flush or raised), shape, color, and conspicuousness (Figure 3). They may vary from very numerous as in Gar- ber, through medium in number as in many varieties, to rather few as in Gorham; from large as in Bosc to small as in Flemish Beauty; from flush as in Flemish Beauty to raised (rough to the touch) as in Bosc; from usually round as in Comice to often elongated as in Clapp Favorite; from russet colored as in
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