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introduced to notice by Dr. Brinckle, and described by him 

 as above quoted. It has a great resemblance to the Stevens's 

 Genesee, ripening about the same season ; but it is superior 

 to that variety, and has the good quality of not rotting at the 

 core like the former pear. It is a large, very beautiful and 

 delicious fruit. 



Dr. Brinckle, in his account of it, states that it is a natural 

 seedling, which sprung up in the family burial ground of Mr. 

 Isaac Leech, in Kingsessing Township, Pa., about four miles 

 from Philadelphia. The tree is now about twenty years old, 



Fig. 32. Kingsessing. 



and began to bear eight or ten years ago. Dr. Brinckle thinks, 

 from its close resemblance to the Chapman, that it is probably 

 a seedling from it, or of its parent the Petre. The original 

 trees of both of the latter sorts are less than a mile from the 

 Kingsessing. 



