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in 1829 was as follows. Girth of the tree twenty inches 

 from the ground, four feet nine inches ; three feet from the 

 ground it divided into two branches; each of these branches, 

 at eight feet from the ground, again divided ; one into two 

 branches and the other into three : the growth perpendicu- 

 lar, but the lateral shoots drooping : height of the tree 

 thirty-six feet, and spread of the branches twenty-four : 

 shape, conical, forming a handsome tree : soil, light. Such 

 is the account given of the original tree. 



From this it will be at once inferred, that the fruit could 

 not have been seen under the same circumstances it would 

 have been, if the tree had been growing in rich soil and 

 properly pruned. The description of Mr. Downer proves 

 such to be the fact. He describes it as under medium size, 

 and formed somewhat like the Harvard. Two pears could 

 not be much more unlike ; the specimen now before us is 

 large, so much so as to be classed among large pears. And 



Cashing' Pear. 



the form one of the handsomest, as will be seen from our 

 engraving {fig: 34,) made from a fine specimen, from a tree 



