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Show A Pear Tree 100 Years Old. There is a pear tree In a cottage garden gar-den near White Hall, Hook, close to Surbiton, Wales, said to be at least 190 years of age. The title deeds of the cottage and garden show that the house was erected in 1709, end mention is Diade in them of a pear tree growing in the garden, which ls beliered to be the same growing there now. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding Its great age the tree has this season yielded a crop of Blxtaen bushels of pears, and shows no signs of diminishing vitality. |