[Fruit culture] . y. Dwarf trees are dwarfed in habit,are productive, and come into bearing at an early age. In the case of some varieties of pears, there are importantadvantages in the growing of the trees as dwarfs. High-quality varieties that come into bearing late, such as the Comice,Glout Morceau, Bosc, Anjou, Winter Nelis, and particularlythe Angouleme, bear fruit of higher quality and the trees comeinto bearing at an earlier age when grown as dwarfs. Also,in the case of varieties that, when grown in the usual way,do not develop their ultimate qualities until the trees haveborne several
[Fruit culture] . y. Dwarf trees are dwarfed in habit,are productive, and come into bearing at an early age. In the case of some varieties of pears, there are importantadvantages in the growing of the trees as dwarfs. High-quality varieties that come into bearing late, such as the Comice,Glout Morceau, Bosc, Anjou, Winter Nelis, and particularlythe Angouleme, bear fruit of higher quality and the trees comeinto bearing at an earlier age when grown as dwarfs. Also,in the case of varieties that, when grown in the usual way,do not develop their ultimate qualities until the trees haveborne several crops of fruit, the growing of the trees as dwarfswill cause the latent qualities to develop at once. One of themost important advantages of the dwarf form of tree is itsadaptability for use as a filler in pear orchards of standardtrees. Dwarf pears have been grown in the East for a great manyyears but only recently has interest in dwarf trees been arousedin the West. At the present time progressive growers 10 PEAR CULTURE § 8 Pacific slope are experimenting with the dwarf, largely becausecf its value as a filler. In general, it may be said that the grow-ing of dwarf pears is of rather small commercial importance. 9. Standard Pears.—A pear tree propagated by the bud-ding or grafting of pear wood onto pear stock is known as astandard tree. Standard pear trees are longer lived than dwarftrees, attain larger size, and are capable of yielding heaviercrops of fruit, but they usually come into bearing later. Alarge percentage of the commercial orchards at the present timeare of standard trees, although there are a number of dwarforchards in the East and a few in the West. Owing to the factthat standard trees are almost exclusively grown in most sec-tions, the following discussion of pear culture willdeal largel}^with this form of tree. A young pear orchard of standardtrees is shown in Fig. 1; this is a Western orchard and is furrowedfor irrigation. VARIETIES OF PEARS 10. H
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