Catalogue, spring 1901 (1901) (19940875923)

Title: Catalogue, spring 1901
Identifier: CAT31285212 (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Green's Nursery Co. (Rochester, N. Y. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Rochester, N. Y. : Green's Nursery Company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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HARVESTING BARTLETT PEARS. PEAR CULTURE.—Standard Pear trees planted 20 feet apart each, way, and Dwarf 10 to 12 feet apart each way, is considered a good distance for planting, but where land is scarce, trees can be set thicker in the row and trees cut out when grown so that roots or branches interfere. The soil for a pear orchard should be somewhat clayey, and yet a rich, sandy soil will produce fine pears. The land should be kept cultivated. It is not uncommon for the pear orchard of fifteen acres to yield from three to five thousand dollars. Bartlett Pear.—Successf ul as Standard or not as good as Flemish Beauty, Bartlett and Louise. Dwarf— Standard Bartlett are even better than Picked early in September and stored in a cold Dwarf. What the Concord is among grapes, the cellar it will be in good order for two months. It Baldwin among apples, the Crawford among is large and handsome, and the tree is very pro- peaches is the Bartlett among pears. The demand ductive. Even the' smallest pears on the tree are upon nurseries for Bartlett trees exceeds those of all other varieties. No fruit has attained the Sopularity of the Bartlett without good reason, rees of both Standard and Dwarf bear very soon after planting. They also bear abundantly and the fruit is attractive to the eye as well as to the taste. It is the most popular pear, both for home use and the market , that the world has ever known. It is buttery and melting, with a rich, musky flavor. The tree is vigorous and rapid in growth. Its season is September. The Bartlett may be picked before it has attained its full size and will ripen and color beautifully and be of ?:ood quality. Many people remove half of the ruit in August, ripemng this for market, thus relieving the tree of its strain and securing larger fruit from that which remains upon the tree. As the Bartlett is liable to overbear, nearly half of the fruit should be removed early in the season always delicious; so there is no waste fruit."