. 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. PEAR PEAR 1247 cion is generally, if not always, imperfect; and such uncongenial combinations are therefore usually short- lived. The quince is the only dissimilar stock upon which the Pear is extensively grown. Quince stocks for tliis purpose are largely imported from^ France. The Angers quince is generally pr
. 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. PEAR PEAR 1247 cion is generally, if not always, imperfect; and such uncongenial combinations are therefore usually short- lived. The quince is the only dissimilar stock upon which the Pear is extensively grown. Quince stocks for tliis purpose are largely imported from^ France. The Angers quince is generally preferred for this purpose. These stocks aie usually planted in nursery rows at the age of two years, to be budded during the following summer, in the same tnauner as Pear stocks. When intended for dwarf trees, nurserymen usually cut them back after one year's growth from the bud to the nearly uniform height of 18 inches, althoiigh with the more upright-growing varieties it Is by many deemed prefer- able to branch them even 6 or 8 inches lower. Aside from the height at which they should be branched, the prun- ing and management should be identical with that pre- scribed for standards, with the important exception that when planted out for fruiting the junction between the quince and the Pear shoukl be 3 or 4 inches below the surface to encourage the formation of roots from the Pear. Trees thus planted will commence to bear, while yet growing, solely from the quince stock, and will con- tinue to prodiice fruit after rooting from the Pear, thus affording the early fruiting of the dwarf, as well as the permanency of the standard. Not more than a specimen or two should be per- mitted to grow upon a dwarf the first and second years after planting. Such trees, if left to fruit freely, will almost certainly be ruined from overbearing before they are fully established. Many varieties when grown as dwarfs can never be safely allowed to mature more than a small portion of the fruit which t
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