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Mount - Venwn Pear. 



on the same branches. It was introduced by Von Siebold from Japan not 

 many years ago. 



It would be very gratifying to me, should I, by this article, induce some 

 amateurs to plant the double-flowering heads, and to treat them as de- 

 scribed in the above. Horticola. 



MOUNT-VERNON PEAR. 



This new variety of the pear is a chance seedling, which originated upon 

 the homestead of the late Hon. Samuel Walker, at Roxbury, Mass., about 



the year 1847. The tree came up in such close proximity to a one-story 

 building as to be nearly denuded of branches, and completely so on the 

 northerly side to the height of about ten feet : but its vigorous habit of 



