PENNSYLVANIA. 



Size Above medium. 



Form Short, obovate. 



Skin Brownish russet on yellowish ground. 



Stem li inch long, 1-1 Oth in width, inserted in a slight depression. 



Calyx Small, set in a shallow basin. 



Flesh Rather coarse, half melting. 



Flavor Highly perfumed. 



Maturity Beginning of September. 



Wood Young wood reddish brown. 



Tree Vigorous, diverging. 



HISTORY, ETC. 



The Pennsylvania Pear originated some fifty or sixty years ago, in the garden of the late 

 John B. Smith, in the District of Moyamensing. The name was given to it by the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society. The original tree, of large size, is still remaining on the premises 

 in Christian Street, and is within twenty or thirty feet of the Moyamensing Pear. In some 

 parts of Ohio another pear is cultivated under this name. 



