Show THE tur PEAK this thib famous fruit has its head qu aiters its ita home lo locality caUty where it is 13 found in the greatest perfection on the fine soil about the village of canandaigua in inthis hrs his State slate the pear is a very old variety and arid well known in ill and about the region of philadelphia as the butter pear and in new englan i as tile tiie chest st michaels in both ot of these regions it fails to come up to lle ile the lie standard of the character crack cracking in 11 badly on oil the soil of new edg el gland and lacking flavor as well as beauty beant but little better accounts can be given of it in in pennsylvania tile the lime stone soil of tile the licali 1 ty about the pretty village milage where it flourishes gou gau so well is is the very spot of all others to feed this tree and the accounts we hear of it t are almost fabulous fabulo lis there are ure trees there full sixteen nichea aiches in in diameter from forty lorty to fifty feet high and from fifty to seventy 5 years ears old which have not failed to produce d u crop since elace the they first cime cline into bearing five to twenty bushels per tree is is the average crop tills this valety of fruit has one peculiar property the ability to withstand frosts which for years has been tested often have whole crops of apples been beon destroyed while every tree of this particular fruit has yielded finely one of the most prolific trees ef of this variety 13 on the homestead of the late judge howell of canandaigua it v as planted by the judge sixty years ag ago alo and is is now nov from forty to fifty feet high a abid W three and a half halt feet round the trunk thomas R howell esq eq E q a son of tile the judge says sas lie he hag has been seen the tree year jear after year for forty years beld fine crops and for twenty ears earb ilaa liaa averaged avera gedat at least twenty bushels each season which have sold for two dollars for bushel oil on the tree this tins tree has paid a of forty collais a year for twenty years ears judye judge I 1 taylor tailor of the same village has bas three of these trees oil on ills ins place from which he has bas realized as high as forty two dollars each for the fluit another citizen of that place bab baa been offered ff tred one ofie hundred dollars a tree for three trees in in his hia garden if he le would allow the removal of them but he declined new york market every year disposes of quantities of this fruit at fifteen dollars a barrel arid and the supply is never equal to the demand ting tina being the cae cace and the fact that one hundred of these trees will easily grow and find food and breathing room in in an acre of ground grou ird and probably can be brough into bearing in in six or el eight 9 lit years it will be asked what beater better inducement can one have to the planting at once of a 4 few acres of them if lie he has a good dry lime alone clone soil from fifteen hundred to four thousand dollars an a acre could be realized according 91 to the above yield in canandaigua |