A NOTICE OF THE CHANCELLOR FEAH. 



BY DR WM. D- BRINCKLE, PHILADELPHIA. 



CHANCELLOR. 

 Green''s Germantowii , ) 

 Early St. Germain, } Synonyms. 



This fine large autumn pear was exhi- 

 bited at the annual exhibition of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in 

 September, 1848, by Samuel R. Sim- 

 mons, Esq., one of our most prominent 

 amateur horticulturists. The fruit was 

 procured from a grafted tree, in the 

 possession of Mr. Joseph Green, of Ger- 

 mantown. The graft was obtained ten 

 or twelve years ago by Mr. Green from 

 a tree on the premises of Wharton 

 Chancellor, Esq., on School-House 

 Lane, near Germantown. 



From a close examination of the tree, 

 tit Mr. Chancellor's, as well as from 

 the testimony of persons who have long 

 resided in that vicinity, there can scarce- 

 ly be a doubt that it has never been 

 worked, and that it has stood in its pre- 

 sent location upwards of fifty years. It 

 is therefore, in all probability, a native 

 Pennsylvania variety ; and we are under 

 great obligations to Mr. Green and Mr. 

 Simmons for bringing it into notice. 



The original tree stands in a circular 

 enclosure of beautiful evergreens. A foot 

 above the ground, it is four feet nine inches 

 in circumference ; but its height is not pro- 

 portionate to the size of the trunk. The 

 branches grow somewhat horizontally ; the 

 young wood is slender, and of a yellowish 

 brown colour ; leaf lanceolate. The tree 

 has a healthy appearance, and is said to be 

 an abundant bearer. 



Fig- e2.— Chancellor Fear. 



Fruit large, nearly four inches long by 

 three in width ; form obovate, or obovale- 

 pyriform ; skin green, covered with minute 

 brown specks, and some russet blotchee, 

 with occasionally, though rarely, a faint 

 speckled brown cheek ; stem one inch long, 

 rather thick, and inserted in a small irre- 

 gular cavity, sometimes elevated on one 

 side ; calyx small, set in a contracted ba- 

 sin ; core medium ; seed long, yellovrish 

 brown; flesh very melting; flavor rich, and 

 exceedingly agreeable. Ripo last of Sep- 

 tember. W. D. B. 



