Excerpt from Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for the Year 1861 Your Committee also visited the pear orchard of Mr. William Bacon, in Roxbury, and found the trees in great vigor, and well loaded with fruit. The advantage of protection from winter winds was very manifest, this garden being surrounded by high walls, which saved the fruit buds. It is a matter of surprise that these trees can continue to thrive in such a location - the surface soil being but eighteen inches to two feet above the water level, in the driest season. The secret is, that a constant and profuse supply of food is applied on the surface, obtained from the city sewer, which flows through the ground. So long as the surface roots can be so fed and stimulated the trees may thrive, as they have heretofore, in a most marked degree, under Mr. Bacon's management. But if, from any cause, the roots should for once venture down, quick consumption would be sure to follow. As Mr. Bacon's garden was fully reported, and received an award last year, it was excluded from the list for this season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.