. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of fruit trees, ornamental plants and roses. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Atlanta Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. Catalogue of Fruits, Ornamental Plants and Roses. 5 PEARS. This most delicious fruit can be had in great abundance with proper care. The trees is pecfectly hardy, and is subject to but one disease—blight—the cause of which horticulturists are not agreed upon ; and until it is well understood only partial remedies can be suggested. When a tree is atta
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of fruit trees, ornamental plants and roses. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Atlanta Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. Catalogue of Fruits, Ornamental Plants and Roses. 5 PEARS. This most delicious fruit can be had in great abundance with proper care. The trees is pecfectly hardy, and is subject to but one disease—blight—the cause of which horticulturists are not agreed upon ; and until it is well understood only partial remedies can be suggested. When a tree is attacked with blight the foliage turns black and the bark shrivels, and if not soon checked the entire trer will be destroyed. The remedy is to cut all the dis- eased parts off well down into the sound wood, so as to leave none of the blighted wood on the tree. Do this as soon as the disease appears, or at whatever stage it is discovered, and wash the trees with linseed oil about the time they put on their foliage in the spring. While the Pear tree is hardy, and bears great extremes of heat and cold, it appears peculiarly adapted to this climate, maturing its fruit in greatest perfection, and most varieties that succeed here grow 25 to 50 per cent, larger than they do in the Northern states. The ground Pears are to be planted on must be thoroughly drained, and, if not rich, should be well supplied with wood ashes and ground bone or super- phosphate of lime. An application of these annually, well forked in at the extremities of the roots, will be found beneficial. When the fruit has matured, lift it from the tree with the hand, taking care that it be not bruised ; lay it upon shelves in a cool, dry room, where it will ripen to great perfection. Our descriptive list embraces a complete succession of the best varieties that succeed here, from the earliest to the latest, with the merit of but few kinds at the same season, and those of the best in cultivation. EARLY VARIETIES. Beurr
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