Mount - Vernon Pear. 



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growth has overcome this impediment to its proper development ; and it has 

 made a strong and symmetrical growth above the point of obstruction, and 

 produces annually a generous crop of fruit, notwithstanding it has been 

 neglected. 



The tree first exhibited its fruit in sufficient quantity to permit of its 

 distribution for trial in i860, in which year Mr. Walker presented speci- 

 mens of the fruit to a number of his personal friends for their examina- 

 tion. Amons; those to whom the fruit was at that time sent were the late Dr. 



W. D. Brinckle and Thomas Meehan, Esq., of Philadelphia, both of whom 

 agreed at that time in considering it " probably the best pear of the 

 season." 



One of the marked characteristics of this new variety of the pear is the 

 novel strain of flavor which it possesses ; and a collection of the more dis- 

 tinct and desirable kinds of the pear would be very incomplete unless it 

 comprised the Mount- Vernon. 



The tree is symmetrical in its habit, and sufficiently vigorous in growth 



