100 THE DKARBORN SEEDLING PEAR. 



Although the Committee had, in the first instance, proposed that this fruit 

 should be called the Dearborn Pear, yet they were not at the moment 

 aware, that in thus naming a fruit, they had been anticipated on the other 

 side of the Atlantic. 



The " Dearborn Pear," properly so called, is quite another fruit. It is 

 a new and most superior variety raised by Dr. Van Mons, of Louvain, in 

 Belgium, and was so named by him, in honor of ihe President. It is not 

 yet in America. 



One of the Committee on Fruits. 



September 12, 1831. 



