Show pear rear culture pear culture is a subject which has been greatly overlooked in utah I 1 do not know of any country state or territory where pear culture could be more profitably followed than in T utah many of our horticulturists have been very successful in tho the culture of apples plums and anil peaches yet they seem to have overlooked the pear the fl first t consideration is what is the most most suitable soil for pears practical tic il pear ear growers in pennsylvania say that t lat as a general m crai cral rule a fresh clay cay I 1 loam oam resting upon i sandy or gravelly subsoil sub soil ora ura sla sia te soll soil resting upon a similar subsoil sub soil is found to be most suitable for the 1 pear 1 ei r especially for dwarfs to say t thab that h t pears need no stimulant to aid in good growth and the develop development of a good 0 od supply buds would bo be begolly folly the main thing seems to te rest on the original formation mr J S houghton a large pear grower in the vicinity of philadelphia say says s lie he uses lime potash phosphoric acid etc because science tells him to hope and believe that they are useful and he knows of no other agents which promise so much he has also followed the following method as laid down in one of our popular works on pear culture by ta a former officer of the american society let every fruit raiser ralser each spring ana and fall prepare such a compost as the following and the tile results of its application to trees will astonish and delight him A should be and half filled with leaves swamp muck or peat or any rubbish of organic matter into this should bo be thrown all the tha I bones iones ones and spoiled meat tile the car carcases cas e s of fowls and animals all of the old fish and meat brine night soil and liquid manure from the tile stables to the above iron should be added in some shape and the whole should be covered covered with a fresh supply of fresh muck tile the effect of such a compost applied to fruit trees is a almost startling in the rapidity and hardiness of growth it induces and in the luscious and highly colored fruit a soil so fertilized will bring forth 11 see pear culture pp ap 32 39 2 33 on the strength or of tho the above it seems that pears like rich feed on mr J S Hough tons plan our natural soil contains more or less of those compounds now how the thing with ils us is which is the best for us to raise naise standards or dwarf lb some of the finest specimens grown gron are from dwarfs or espaliers esp allers aliers or carefully y trimmed pyramids planted where light crops are raised and where the soil is lightly worked br or hoed and an annual top dressing of manure when those these trees are planted in deep soil cultivated close up with cabbages and potatoes or other things lings ti which require deep digging pigging and consequent ties des truc tion of surface pear roots the great advantage of dwarfs or espaliers esp aliers is they can be easily got grot at and carefully pruned the teco tyco being well balanced all ali allover over with well weli w ell eli developed wood of equal growth while ethe etho the standards are generally on th chellet eliet ellet alone alono system and tho the branches are left starving one another pears were raised in salt lake city last season not only on our bench or gravelly land but very fair specimens on what is called salt or land jand so there seems to be no excuse for the people of utah to neglect so important an object ThA thousands sands of dollars are paid to california for fruit which commands a high price in this market this is a disgrace to the fruit growers of utah now if some one will start out in this laudable enterprise there is no doubt there would be many more follow their noble nobie example it is not to be supposed that a large c fortune is to be made but the saving a v ing to this territory would be immense it also appears that fruit growers do not pay as much attention to thinning out their fruit when growing or in selecting when preparing for market mark wet tet as they ought to for instance in a bushel of fruit a great many scrubs may be found which spoil tho the whole not that a second class of fruit should be wasted but by properly selecting the tile fruit a higher price inay may be obtained and the second class elass can be sold for what it is worth A walk th through ro ugh our market will convince anyone of the correctness of the following quotation tation from the pen of our frion friend meehan of the gardeners gardners Gard ners monthly one clone half the trees which bear fruit every year sear would be benefited by h having n gone goue half the fruit taken off as soon as it is set and the overbearing bear n of a tree in a few years will destroy g it 13 some may say our nurserymen nurseryman nursery men charge too high a price for their peartie egand that they will not pay aitor will w 1 rather ther go without them this is a great mistake even if such was the case in the first place pear seed commands orn mands a high price and the failures in getting the seed to germinate are frequent the wholesale price for two year old pear trees in the eastern serles series this season ranges M ages from 25 to 15 pr their retail price tius tins mus from fifty cents centa toa to a dollar each while here liere in utah you ca can i get et trees of the samon frame age e at retail from grom fifty nifty to seventy tive rivo eouts couts each then let the tile people of utah take this matter in the proper see sec if we cannot raio ralo rai ral c sufficient fruit not only for home consumption but hut have an abundance to export and put a stop to the unnecessary business of leavin li having avin to import what we ve ought to baboin have havo in every orchard at obrown our own do doors X V JOHN READING |