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em side of the tree, and which are not more than 15 or 20 years old. 

 No perceptible difference can be discovered betAveen them and the 

 tree itself, by comparing the wood. This seems to denote the fact of 

 the ti'ee being a seedling variety. Indeed, its rude and spiny charac- 

 ter seems to denote a native of the soU. If imported by Governor 

 Endicott, which is according to famUy tradition, it must have been a 

 seedling vai'iety, and not grafted, none of the usual appearances of a 

 grafted tree being visible." 



" Its genex'al form is low and spi-eading, about twenty feet high, and 

 nearly the same in extent of branches. The chcumference of the 

 stem near the ground, is seven feet and five inches." 



