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Histoi'y of the Endicott Pear Tree. 



period of 223 years ! Those fruit trees which approach the 

 nearest to it in age, are the pear tree of Gov. Stuyvesant, in 

 New York, which claims to have been imported from Hol- 

 land, in 1647, seventeen years later ; — an apple tree of the 

 Pearmain variety, imported into Connecticut in 1638, by 

 Gov. Geo. Wykcy, and bore fruit the last season, on the 

 " Charter Oak Place," owned by Hon. T. W. Stuart, of Hart- 

 ford;— -the pear tree of Gov. Prince, of the Plymouth Colony, 



Fig. 20. Tht Endicott Pear Tree. 



at Chatham, which was brought from England by him, 

 somewhere between the years 1640 and 1645; — the apple 

 tree planted, according to tradition, in 1648, at Marshfield, in 

 this State, by Peregrine White, the first English child born 

 in New England. After these, by dropping down more than 

 a century of time, we find the "Lady Petre " pear tree in 

 Bartram's garden in Philadelphia, which is said to be 116 

 years of age. 



For the annexed representation (Jig. 20J of the present ap- 

 pearance of the " Endicott Pear Tree," we are indebted to 

 the kind attention of our friend, Samuel P. Fowler, Esq., of 



