450 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



157. Brandywine. Horticulturist^ Vol. III. 



The Brandywine (fig. 30) is one of the most recently in- 

 troduced of our American pears : it was briefly described in 

 our volume for 1849, (XV, p. 16.) Specimens were sent to 

 the Mass. Hort. Society in 1848, by Dr. Brinckle of Philadel- 

 phia, which the Fruit Committee thought remarkably fine. 

 They were taken from the original tree. Since then we 

 have not seen it, or had an opportunity to try it, until the 

 present season, when a tree in our collection produced sev- 

 eral fruits. We found it to be one of the most delicious sum- 



Fig. 30. Brandywine. 



mer varieties we have ever eaten, superior either to the Ty- 

 son or Rostiezer, though greatly resembling in appearance the 

 former pear. 



The qualities of the Brandywine are peculiarly its own, 



