PEARS FOR PROFIT.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 50, 27 June 1905, Page 2

PEARS FOR PROFIT.

Some grow too many kinds of fruit to make much profit from ; orchids or gardens. Find "out the one particular kind thac euits' the soil, and plant that largely. : There are what may be called one apple men. I know one who has planted hundreds -of Cox's Orange Pippin apples. Ho planted only a few trees first, and found, them do so well that he brok up more land and planted that bind only, and he now wishes he had more land. This variety always fetches, the top price in the market; and there will never be too many. It is true the tree does not prosper on wet, cold land, but on deep, warm logins an acre of it would be a fortune for a working man. But, to revert to pears for profit, the best variety to plant is certainly Doyenne dv OomiceV Plant pyramids on tne pear stock, 10ft. to 12ft. apart, and after they have been planted 4 years lift carefully and replanVlaying $c roots out horizontally. ? Then let them grow and bear all they wiT and if they bear heavy crops feed on the sur face with rich top- dressing, so as to keep the roots within the influence of the aun- ■ 'shine. ■' ■'. •.•■■■'•■; . . ..•/.. ■ '■:- , ■ Itjs calculated that every': week-day morning 1,000 miles of London newapapera are given to tne world by means of th« rotary pxess. . ? It is a very simple matter to get the height of a tree when the sun is shining. If a person five feet in height throws a shadow ten feet, he may be reasonably sure that a tree with a shadow of 100 feet is 60 feet in height. Any schoolboy with the knowledge of arithmetical rules of proportion can get the height of a tree in this way without difficulty.- •,