54 THE TYSON PEAR. 



it bore three pears, which proved so fine, that a number. of trees were 

 grafted from it in 1800. Two trees, grown from suckers of the original, 

 were shown to Dr. Brinckle ; they were then about fifty years old ; they 

 were large, healthy, fine looking trees, and bore the same fruit as the 

 parent ; a conclusive proof of its origin from seed. The old tree is still 

 "standing in the yard of a house in Jenkintown, and in January, 1847, 

 measured six feet in circumference. 



It is quite a hardy tree, and very upright in its growth, which is moderately 

 luxuriant, but not very vigorous, except when engrafted on the leading 

 shoots of old trees. Although it is soon furnished with what appear to be 

 fruit spurs, they are in this early age but rudimentary, and it does not come 

 soon into bearing. 



