TWO NEW PEARS. 



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Fig. 77. Tlie Onondaga Pear. 



entirely confined to the neighborhood of 

 Syracuse and Rochester. 



We have before us two' letters from Mr. 

 Leavenworth, from which Ave gather the 

 following interesting facts : 



" The only old trees," Mr. Leavenworth 

 writes, " are in Onondaga county, N. Y. 

 Four large bearing trees are growing on the 

 grounds of Mr.* Killman near Syracuse, 

 and one on the grounds of Mr. Swan. 

 All the younger trees in this neighborhood 

 or at Rochester, may be traced back to these. 

 Eight or ten years ago, Mr. Swan sent some 

 of the fruit from his tree to Rochester, 

 where it was so much admired that the gar- 



deners there sent and obtained 

 buds from his tree, and propa- 

 gated it under the name of 

 ' Swan's Orange.' There is no 

 propriety in the name, as Mr. 

 Swan has but one old tree, pro- 

 duced from grafts obt'iined of 

 Mr. Casf, and neither origina- 

 ted nor propagated it largely. 

 These trees all came from 

 Henry Case, Esq., now a resi- 

 dent of Ohio, but who former- 

 ly resided in Liverpool, a vil- 

 lage on the shore of Lake On- 

 ondaga, five miles north of Sy- 

 racuse. 



"On applying to this gen- 

 tleman for the authentic histo- 

 ry of this fruit, I received a 

 letter from him as follows : 

 That in the winter of 1806, 

 Mr. Case cut grafts from a tree 

 then standing in Farmington, 

 Connecticut, on the premises 

 of a Mr. CuRTiss — the father 

 of the late Fisher Curtiss, 

 Esq., of Salina. These grafts 

 Mr. Case put into a stock in 

 Onondaga in this county. In 1808, he re- 

 moved that tree to Liverpool, where he then 

 resided, and from whence the grafts were 

 taken which produced the trees now in pos- 

 session of Killman, Swan, and others, in 

 this neighborhood. A great many grafts 

 were taken from Mr. Case's tree, from 1812 

 to 1828 — all who ate of it wishing for grafts. 

 Mr. Case does not say whether the original 

 tree in Farmington was grafted or not, and 

 probably, after a lapse of time of forty years, 

 it is impossible to ascertain." 



Mr. Leavenworth also informs us, that he 

 has traced both Swan's and Killman's trees 

 of this pear to Mr. Case's, and has no doubt 



