This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The celebrated eight acres of dwarf pears at Walworth, New York, noticed in our pages years ago, still constitute a triumph in dwarf pear culture. According to a recent visit of a correspondent of the Rural Home, " the pear trees have been planted a good many years, but they have been so persistently headed back that the highest branches are hardly beyond reach, while the trunks are four or five inches in diameter. They have yielded a fine revenue for many years and have some fruit this year."
 
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