25. 
THE PEAR. 
Pyrus communis. 
Puate 4, Fie. 5. 
5 MONGST cultivated fruits there are 
(Ji few which are more pleasant to 
the taste than Pears. But the 
quality of edibility cannot be 
claimed for the subject of this 
chapter, although it has the dis- 
tinction of having been the original 
stock from which its garden relatives have 
’ descended. The Wild Pear of our woods 
and hedges is a Tree which is not usually found 
of a large size, being seldom more than fifty feet 
in height, and much more frequently less than 
Bb 2 
