LEECH'S KINGSESSING PEAR. 



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Fig. 42. — LeeMs Kingsessing Pear, 



This is the first fruit named and described 

 since the adoption of the Rules of American 

 Pomology, by our leading Horticultural 

 Societies. The Fruit Committee of the 

 Pennsylvania Society (see report in last 

 No. p. 295,) having decided that it is " a 

 new seedling pear of high merit ; " and 



Dr. Bkinckle, who is a competent pomolo- 

 gist, having described it as a rich and ex- 

 cellent variety, cultivators may consider it 

 a sort worthy of trial in all parts of the 

 country. Our own opinion has already been 

 strongly given in favor of native varieties of 

 the Pear. Ed.] 



