THE WILD PEAR. 
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new land. Upon this assumption it is probable that the intro- 
duced specimens were already somewhat cultivated, but when 
they (or their descendants) became wild they reverted to the 
original condition of the species. 
The Wild Pear, or Choke-pear, is a small tree, from twenty 
to sixty feet in height, of somewhat pyramidal form. The twigs. 
which are usually of a drooping tendency, are also much given 
to ending in spines — a character scarcely apparent in the 
cultivated tree. The leaves, too, of the wild tree are more 
distinctly toothed than those of the Garden Pear. They are 
oval in shape, with blunt-toothed edges, and downy on the 
lower surface. Along the new shoots the leaves are arranged 
alternately on opposite sides, but on shoots a year old they are 
Wild Pear. 
A, flower. 
