490 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



numerous varieties which have been received from abroad 

 during the last twenty years, this has not been found among 

 those which have fruited, we conckided there must have been 

 some error in the generally received opinion of its foreign ori- 

 gin, and that it should be considered ^.native fruit. Impressed 

 with this opinion, we recently called on Mr. Hanners, who 

 resides in Boston, and who is now upwards of eighty years 

 of age, and gathered the following facts, which show con- 



Fig. 44. Hanners, 



clusively that it is a native variety, which probably originated 

 in this city. 



Before the Revolution, a large tract of land on Federal 

 street was owned and occupied by Col. Webb, as a garden 

 and pasture. Mr. Hanners's garden adjoined that of Col. 

 Webb. At that time. Col. Webb had several fine pear trees, 

 as well as other kinds of fruit, in his garden, many of which, 

 especially the pears, were imported from England. Mr. Han- 



