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sown by Mr. Andrew Williams, at North Bend, (late the residence of the 

 lamented Harrison,) from whom Mr. Cannahan procured it, with a parcel 



Cannahan's Favorite. 



of other trees, and planted them on his farm above referred to, m the 

 spring of 1799. I measured the tree last fall, four feet above the ground, 

 and found it girted seven feet six inches It is still vigorous and healthy, 

 and forms an immense spreading head. This is the only tree, out of a lot 

 of seventy, which produced fruit worth preserving. You will probably 

 think me very minute in my history, but as I have seen the sad effects of 

 a want of being particular, I do not feel at liberty to take too much on trust 

 and promulgate it in the same way. The fruit, as you will perceive, is 

 very handsome, of good size, fine flavor, and an excellent keeper ; these 

 are all desirable qualities which cannot fail to recommend it to favorable 

 notice, and the only wonder is, that it should so long have existed in com- 

 parative obscurity. I will not attempt to describe it ; I leave that for the 

 more competent hand of yourself and the committee on fruits ; I shall be 

 glad if my opinion of its merits are sustained, and it is thought worthy of 

 promulgation, that a figure of it, with a description, be published in Hov- 

 ey's Magazine of Horticulture. I send a few grafts for yourself and the 

 members of the Society. 

 I also send a few scions of a seedling pear, under the name of Hill's 



