. Catalogue, spring 1901. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Seckel Pear.—Standard and Dwarf.—The standard of excellence in the pear, small, but of the highest flavor and production, and small Seckels sell better than large, if smooth and fair. Tree a stout, slow, erect grower. Season, September and. October. Gives Excellent , both as standard when about the size of a hickory nut. If this is and dwarf, succeeds well throughout the Northern, done and the trees are kept in cultivated soil and Middle and Western States. , well
. Catalogue, spring 1901. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Seckel Pear.—Standard and Dwarf.—The standard of excellence in the pear, small, but of the highest flavor and production, and small Seckels sell better than large, if smooth and fair. Tree a stout, slow, erect grower. Season, September and. October. Gives Excellent , both as standard when about the size of a hickory nut. If this is and dwarf, succeeds well throughout the Northern, done and the trees are kept in cultivated soil and Middle and Western States. , well fertilized they will bear profitable crops of One of the great edible luxuries of life is a supply the finest specimens imaginable. All pears should of first rate pears properly ripened, and this is a always be picked before fully ripe to secure best luxury which conduces to good health, than wnicn Sheldon Pear. —"A better autumn pear does not ; First quality; large, round, rus- set and red, melting, rich and delicious. Tree vigorous, erect and handsome and bears well when grown. As a standard nothing is more desirable. A good pear orchard is a source of both employment and profit. SHELDON. For at least three years a tree can stand no great drawbacks, and is governed by nature's laws the same as animal life; it must start out with a constitution, to ever make a fruit-bearing tree. Rochester stands pre-eminently ahead as a fruit-growing district, the same as the great prairies of the West hold their supremacy for the production of corn; and when we see great com- mercial centers, we know they were not made so scription or illustration. One through accident, but adaptability. The finest pear grower says: "It is the orchards in the West to-day bear evidence of the finest table pear in the world, vitality of Rochester stock, and the greatest of all and good for canning also, but argument is that the people are satisfied. should be more largely p
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