. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. ew years. In picking the fruitwe use ladders hung on wheels (old carriage wheels),which are readily handled and safe. Ladders 12 to 24 oreven 30 feet can be used, but with one of 18 feet, properlyhung, a man can pick Pears from the top limbs 20feet high and the ladder need not touch
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. ew years. In picking the fruitwe use ladders hung on wheels (old carriage wheels),which are readily handled and safe. Ladders 12 to 24 oreven 30 feet can be used, but with one of 18 feet, properlyhung, a man can pick Pears from the top limbs 20feet high and the ladder need not touch the tree. The orchard can be gone over quickly and the highPears picked first, these being most likely to be blownoff and to be bruised in falling. We use, in handling PEAR our fruit from the orchard, baskets holding % bushel, andcart into packing house on low wagons, the platform ofwhich is made of 2-inch hemlock plank 18 feet long andhung as low as will permit a 2-foot front wheel to turnunder; being low it is very convenient to load from theground. A man can readily load 70 to 80 baskets with-out getting on the wagon, and the packing house flooris about the same height as the low wagon for conven-ience of unloading and reloading on other wagons forcarting to markets. John S. Collins. PEAR 1251. 1692. Packing Pears for export. Dwarf Pears.— Dwarf Pear trees are produced bybudding the Pear-wood upon the French quince. Thepoint of union should be so low that, when the youngtrees are transplanted into the orchard, this point willbe 3 or 4 inches below the surface of the ground. Thequince, being naturally of a slower growth than thePear, will, by the moisture of the ground and its protec-tion from the drying effects of the atmosphere, be keptmore nearly equal to the size of the Pear. As the treebecomes older the Pear will throw out Pear roots at theunion, which will give increased vigor and strength tothe tree in its years of maturity when producing heavycrops of fru
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