BRANDYWINE PEAR. 



Size Medium, 21 inches long by 2 in width.. 



Form Pyriform, much flattened at the base. 



Skin Yellowish green, nearly covered with russet dots and blotches, especially around 

 the eye. 



Stem One inch long, medium thickness, somewhat fleshy at its insertion without de- 

 pression. 



Calyx Of medium size; open, set in a wide shallow basin. 



Core Rather small. 



Seed Dark brown. 



Flesh White, melting. 



Flavor Rich, resembling, in Mr. Downing's opinion, that of the White Doyenne and 

 Marie Louise combined. 



Maturity Middle of August. 



Leaf Rather long, slender, serrate. 



Wood Yellowish olive, interspersed with white dots. 



Tree A free grower, a regular and abundant bearer. 



HISTORY, ETC. 



Dr. Ellwood Harvey, of Chaddsford, gives in the 3d vol. of the Horticulturist, the following 

 history of this fine New Pennsylvania Pear: 



" The original tree was found near a fence in a field on my father's farm, (the late Eli 

 Harvey.) It was transplanted, when quite small, to a garden on the property of George 

 Brinton, then owned by his grandfather, Caleb Brinton. This garden, on the banks of the 

 Brandywine river, is a part of the ground on which the American army stood in the defense of 

 our country in the Battle of Brandywine ; and I therefore respectfully suggest the above name 

 as an appropriate one for the fruit. The tree began to bear fruit about the year 1820, and in 

 1835 the original trunk blew down, near the surface of the ground. The present tree is a 

 sucker, or shoot, which sprung up from the root, and has now been in bearing four or five 

 years." 



I saw this pear for the first time in the summer of 1848. It, and another variety, were 

 sent to me from Westchester before a description of it was published in the Horticulturist, for 

 the purpose of obtaining my opinion of their merits. I unhesitatingly pronounced the Brandy- 

 wine to be greatly superior to the other, and to be a fruit of the first quality. 



