. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. e the apple-borer, caterpillar, canker worm, bark louse, wooly aphis, apple worm, orcodling moth, twig-girders, the blight, and the apple-bark beetle, while in many sectionsmice, rabbits, sheep, and cattle, do considerable injury to young trees unless properly protectedfrom them. For treatment of these, see special department on Diseases and Enemies of Fruit. Pears.—The pear may very justly be regarded as one of our best fruits in point of quality,
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. e the apple-borer, caterpillar, canker worm, bark louse, wooly aphis, apple worm, orcodling moth, twig-girders, the blight, and the apple-bark beetle, while in many sectionsmice, rabbits, sheep, and cattle, do considerable injury to young trees unless properly protectedfrom them. For treatment of these, see special department on Diseases and Enemies of Fruit. Pears.—The pear may very justly be regarded as one of our best fruits in point of quality,and as a favorite fruit of modern times. In its wild state, the choke pear is anything buta palatable fruit, and its present improved and perfected standard is a wonderful proof ofhorticultural science and skill. The pear tree is not a native of this country, but was intro-duced here from Europe. It grows wild in hedges and wooded wastes in Europe, WesternAsia, and China, in connection with the apple, and in the wild state is more hardy and longerlived than the latter; hence, the common impression that pear trees are tender, and that it is. HUTCHINSON S FAMILY MILL. 768 THE AMERICAN FARMER. difficult to obtain a good quality of tliis fruit, is altogether without foundation. Pear treeslive to a great age under favoring conditions. M. Bosc, in his writings, refers to severalwhich are known to be near 400 years old. Other writers mention a remarkable pear tree in Herefordshire, England, which, in 1805,covered more than half an acre with its branches, which, bending down, would take root, andin turn produce others in the same manner. It is also stated that more than once, fifteenhogsheads of perry (the juice of the pear fermented) have been made from this tree in asingle year. The delicious qualities of this fruit were not developed to any great extentuntil the seventeenth century, while during the last century more has been done to perfectthis choice fruit than all the time of i
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