artlett Pear 340

Beurre Diel Pear 341

White Doyenne Pear 342

Flemish Beauty 343

Seckel 345

Gray Doyenne Pear 346

The Curculio 355

Lawrence's Favorite Plum 356

Imperial Gage 357

Egg-Plum 357

Green Gage 358

Jefferson Plum 358

Washington Plum 359

French Merino Ram 386

Shepherdia, or Buffalo Berry 390

Strawberry Blossoms 397

Fan Training (Four Illustrations) 417, 418

Horizontal Training (Two Illustrations) 419

Conical Training (Four Illustrations) 420

SOIL CULTURE.

ACCLIMATION.

This is the art of successfully changing fruits or plants from one
climate to another. Removal to a colder climate should be effected in
the spring, and to a warmer one in the fall. This may be done by scions
or seeds. By seeds is better, in all cases in which they will produce
the same varieties. Very few imported apple or pear trees are valuable
in this country; while our finest varieties, perfectly adapted to our
climate, were raised from seeds of foreign fruits and their descendants.
The same is true of the extremes of this country. Baldwin apple-trees,
forty or fifty years old, are perfectly hardy in the colder parts of New
England; while the same imported from warmer sections of the Union fail
in severe winters. This fact has given many new localities the
reputation of being poor fruit-regions. When we remove fruit-trees to a
similar climate in a new country, they flourish well, and we call it a
good fruit-country. Remove trees from the same nursery to a different
climate and s