. The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches. is PEARS. 101 questionable if the others are in general cultiva- Ition now. Increasing attention is, however, Ibeing paid to this work, and the chief difficultythat has to be overcome is the maintenance ofa good constitution in the product of the cross,while the quality of the fruit is improved, orthe season varied. Many Pears of the highestquality are defective in habit, hardiness, orfertility, and in seeking to correct or reducethese defects there is a danger of inducing the jother
. The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches. is PEARS. 101 questionable if the others are in general cultiva- Ition now. Increasing attention is, however, Ibeing paid to this work, and the chief difficultythat has to be overcome is the maintenance ofa good constitution in the product of the cross,while the quality of the fruit is improved, orthe season varied. Many Pears of the highestquality are defective in habit, hardiness, orfertility, and in seeking to correct or reducethese defects there is a danger of inducing the jother extreme, excessive vigour. There isample room for improvement amongst Pears,although they are so numerous. With earlyPears alone many good results might be ob-tained, while in the production of hardy fertilevarieties of general commercial value there isa wide scope for experiments. As an indication of what can be effectedby new work in thedirection of intercross-ing, the results ob-tained in the UnitedStates within the pastfew years are espe-cially inter-esting. Theofficial Year-book ofDepartment of. Fig. •Kieffer Pear (after Bailey) Agriculture for 1899 contains a report uponProgress in Plant-breeding, in which thefollowing passage occurs:— The Pear owes but little of its developmentto artificially produced hybrids, and yet in noother fruit have -hybrids played such an impor-tant role. The Kieffer, Le Conte, and Garber,all widely-grown commercial Pears, throughwhich this industry has been greatly extended,are naturally produced hybrids of the EuropeanPear and the Chinese Sand Pear. The EuropeanPear, noted for its excellent quality, succeedsadmirably on the Pacific coast, but has neverproved wholly satisfactory in the Eastern States,and cannot be successfully grown on a commercialscale south of Virginia. The Chinese Sand Pear comes from a region having climatic conditionsvery similar to those of the Eastern and SouthernStates, and thus finds here a congenial f
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