Description of the Petre Pear, 



never been subject to blight, and has not once failed to bear 

 in the last thirty years; some seasons producing 10 or 12 

 bushels of fine handsome fruit, which is in good eating from 

 the middle of September to Christmas. The fruit is always 

 worth from three dollars to five dollars a bushel. The stem of 

 the tree is about 14 in. in diameter, and 25 ft. high. It is in the 

 most perfect health, although near a century old, and has pro- 

 bably borne near 500 bushels of pears. Mr. Bartram informed 

 me that the tree was about twenty years old before it produced 

 fruit, and narrowly escaped being cut down as barren. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 Bartram's Botanic Garden, Nov. 1831. Robert Carr. 



