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Title: Descriptive catalogue of fruit trees, vines & plants, cultivated and for sale by Franklin Davis & Co., at the Richmond Nurseries, on the Brook Turnpike, one and a half miles from the city
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Franklin Davis Nursery Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Fruit trees Seeds Catalogs Climbing plants Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : Franklin Davis & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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of Pears which will beproduced The following are a few of the many examples of profit arising fromPear culture: T. G. Yeomans, of Walworth, 1ST. Y., sold, in 1857, almost his entirecrop of one variety at $14.50 per barrel, or 12 cents each by the barrel.In 1860 he sold, in Philadelphia, 11 barrels for $315 and one of them, con-taining 125 pears, weighed 127 pounds, brought $35.02, these were of theDuchesse variety, raised on dwarf trees. He has 3300 dwarf Pear trees inone orchard, eight feet apart each way ; kept thoroughly cultivated, with-out any other crop occupying the ground. They have produced from onehalf bushel to one bushel per tree, and have sold at prices ranging from $14,to $35 per barrel, and at the rate of much over $2000 per acre. Austin Pinny, of Clarkston, N. Y., sold some of his Pears, in 1857,at 10 cents each, $18 per bushel. The Louise Bonne de Jersey has sold in Boston at $10 per bushel, andthe Glout Morceau and Easter Beurre Pears, handsomely ripened in win- (24)
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C 25 ) ter, have been sold by Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, and others, at $3per dozen. All these varieties were grown on dwarf trees, which developwith good cultivation, great size and excellence in the fruit, while theyield is sometimes two bushels to the tree. Ellwanger & Barry received from an orchard of White Doyenne, thefourth year, $500 per acre, and about the same the sixth year. Dr. C. W. Grant, on the Hudson, received from a tree of FlemishBeauty, the eighth year after planting, 400 pears, which he sold for $30.It was estimated that thirty trees of that variety wculd reach from 15 to 20bushels. These were standard trees in their earliest bearing. W. P. Townsend, of Lockport, N. Y., obtained from one acre ofdwarf pears, the firth year from the bud, 41 barrels which sold at $10 perbarrel, or $410. We have shipped Bartlett Pears to New York, that sold for $15, perbushel, and inferior but Early pears to Baltimore that brought $8 perbushel. Similar instances, beyond nu

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