. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. )OUt ()0 names ofpear varieties have ajjpeared in American publications between 1804 and1907. (See Bulletin 120, Bureau of Plant Industry.) Propagation.—The jiear is propagated in the same ways as the apple,but till- stocks are dilTerent. In stocks, the ])ear has a very wide range of affinities. Those. Peau Tuef. in Blossom. Note iinusually pproadinK form of this tree. This is desir-able, although difficult to secure in iiianj- varieties. chiedy us<d arc theseedlings of the smallSnow pear (Pyrus7} i ml is) of Eur
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. )OUt ()0 names ofpear varieties have ajjpeared in American publications between 1804 and1907. (See Bulletin 120, Bureau of Plant Industry.) Propagation.—The jiear is propagated in the same ways as the apple,but till- stocks are dilTerent. In stocks, the ])ear has a very wide range of affinities. Those. Peau Tuef. in Blossom. Note iinusually pproadinK form of this tree. This is desir-able, although difficult to secure in iiianj- varieties. chiedy us<d arc theseedlings of the smallSnow pear (Pyrus7} i ml is) of stock results intrees of the normalsize. Dwarf pear treesare i)roduced by bud-ding on to quincestocks. The latterare secured from theAngers quince bymound varieties, andparticularly the An-gouleme, arc muchbenefited by this pro-cess. Such varietiesare often planted withthe stock below thesurface to reduce in-jury from the round-headed borer, whichattacks the quince,but rarely the pears,and they are double-ajianese (juiiice is not Some varieties do not unite well with the (luiiutworked by first using one that does. Thesatisfactory as a stock for anj variety. In the South, cuttings of the KiefTer pear arc u.^ed to some extent, andin the more rigorous sections, tlu mountain ash (Sorfms) and even the shadbush (AtiKhinrfiicr) have been u.^d as stocks wit
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