CHAPTER VII. 



WILD PEAB-TBEE. IBON-PEAB. 

 Pyrus communis. 



" Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found, 

 And stood on tiptoes, reaching from the ground." 



Virgil. 



A PHILOSOPHER came one day and sat beneath my branches, 

 and with him (said a wild pear-tree) was a youth, to whom 

 he spoke concerning the various uses of such trees as grew 

 around. 



It seems, he said, as if the merciful Creator of the 

 Universe had given divers textures to different kinds of 

 wood, that in the passing on of ages, and the developing 



