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Pendleton^ s Early York Pear. 



pornological world, and believing that its readers would be 

 pleased with an account of any new variety of fruit that gives 

 promise of gratifying the taste, I take the liberty to give you 

 a description of a seedling pear, {Jig. 41,) raised in our 

 neighborhood, which bids fair to eclipse the Madaleine, and 

 other pears, ripening contemporaneously with it. The rea- 

 son that this pear has never been introduced to public notice, 

 is, because the people in our section (southeastern part) of the 

 State take comparatively but very little interest in the cultiva- 

 tion of fruit. I hope the day is not far distant when there will 

 be a decided improvement in this respect. 



Fig. 41. Pendleton's Early York Pear. 



The tree was raised from a seed of the Rousselet Hatif, or 

 Early Catharine, by Mrs. Jeremiah York, who is now nearly 

 eighty years of ago, and who planted it, I believe, more than 

 twenty years since. Although the tree is small, and does not 

 exceed ten or twelve feet in height, yet it has borne, for a 



