Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1875 — New Tops on Old Pear Trees. [ARTICLE]

New Tops on Old Pear Trees.

That the pear is a long-lived tree the famous Endicott and Stuyvesant peartrees, going back 200 years or more, attest. Yet we frequently find trees that look old at fifty years and less, with dead limbs, mossy trunks and fruitless boughs. These old trees are often seedlings or of poor varieties, that have offered no particular inducement to their owners to care for them. A crop of astringent or sour pears is not much missed when it fails. These old trees sometimes occupy lawns or fields near the house, and will repay

abundantly the little care that is needed to give them a new start and to graft them with standard varieties. Some twenty years ago we took up one of these stunted old trees at a distance from the house and removed it, with a block of frozen earth, upon a stone-boat, to a rich border prepared for it in the fruit-yard. It made a growth of a foot of wood the first season. It was then grafted with an improved variety; the grafts took kindly, began to bear the third year, and have yielded good crops of delicious fruit ever since. Five years ago we grafted an old tree in the garden , which bore only indifferent winter pears, about second-rate for cooking, with the Paradise of Autumn. We began to get pears the second season from the grafts, and have had them in increasing quantity every year since. Last year it yielded over three bushels of splendid fruit, worth at least S2O. The secret of success with these old trees is to stir the soil all around them as far as the roots extend, to manure liberally, to cut out all the dead wood and, about the second season, when the tree has got a good start, to commence grafting. We take three seasons to put on a new top, beginning with the highest limbs and working down. In renewing the vigor of the tree almost any kind of manure or compost is available. Wood-ashes is one of the best fertilizers. Old bones, well buried, will pay a large interest on their cost. The contents of the privy-vault and the cesspool, composted, are exceedingly valuable in renovating these old trees. In stirring the soil, care should be taken not to break the roots with the plow. We attach about equal importance to the stirring of the soil and to the fertilizing, in the process of renovation.—American Agriculturist. —Nothing is so calculated to overthrow one’s confidence in human nature as the spectacle of a man poulticing his wife’s throat for the purpose of restoring her voice. The New Panacea. —Modem science having demonstrated that alcohol is “neither food nor physic,” but, on the contrary, a species of poison, the introduction of a potent tonic which is entirely free from it is certainly a subject for con-g-atulation. Dr. Walker’s Vinegar itters is a medicine which may be fairly characterized as an unobjectionable specific for many distressing and dangerous diseases. Temperance organizations, heretofore in favor of permitting the sale of alcohol for medical purposes, are of opinion that Vinegar Bitters possesses all the efficacy as an invigorant that has ever been claimed for spirituous stimulants, and on this account, as well as because of the singular success which has attended its use in dyspepsia, liver complaint, disorders of the bowels, nervous diseases, general debility, and all maladies growing out of intemperance, they warmly recommend it as a restorative and alterative of surpassing excellence. 43

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