BRANDYWINE PEAR. 



Size Medium, 21 inches long by 2 in width. 



Form Pyriform, much flattened at the base. 



Skin Yellowish Green, nearly covered with russet dots and blotches, especially 

 around the eye. 



Stem One inch long, medium thickness, somewhat fleshy at. its insertion, without 

 depression. 



Calyx Of Medium size, open, set in a wide shallow basin. 



Core Rather small. 



Seed Dark brown. 



Flesh White, melting. 



Flavor Rich, resembling in Mr. Downing's opinion, that of the white Doyenne 



and Marie Louise, combined. 

 Maturity Middle of August. 

 Leaf- Rather long, slender, serrate. 

 Wood Yellowish olive, interspersed with white dots. 

 Tree A free grower a regular abundant bearer. 



HISTORY, ETC. 



Dr. Ellwood Harvey, of Chaddsford, gives in the 3d Vol. Horticulturist, the 

 following history of this fine new Pennsylvania Pear. 



" The original Tree was found near a fence in a field on my father's farm, 

 (the late Eli Harvey.) It was transplanted when quite small, to a garden on the 

 property of George Brinton, then owned by his grandfather, Caleb Brinton. This 

 garden on the banks of the Brandywine River, is a part of the ground on which 

 the American Army stood in the defence of our Country in the Battle of Brandy- 

 wine ; and I therefore respectfully suggest the above name as an appropriate one 

 for the fruit. The tree began to bear fruit about the year 1820, and in 1835 the 

 original trunk blew down near the surface of the ground. The present tree is a 

 sucker or shoot, which sprang up from the root, and has now been in bearing four 

 or five years." 



I saw this Pear for the first time in the Summer of 1848. It and another 

 variety were sent to me from Westchester before a description of it was published 

 in the Horticulturist, for the purpose of obtaining my opinion of their merits. I 

 unhesitatingly pronounced the Brandywine to be greatly superior to the other, 

 and to be a fruit of the first quality. 



