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Title: The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Description: Engraving of a photograph of the first Seckel pear tree, located in front of a house in the Philadelphia 'Neck' (in the southwestern part of South Philadlephia). Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Charles H. Marot
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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story gradually infected my imagination. It began to haunt me. I saw it— In my minds eye, Horatio,— standing like a sentinel down there in The Neck among the dikes and ditches; livingthrough slow and patient history; watching through its two hundi-ed years, so the storygoes, and listening to the hum and stir of distantlife in the Quaker metropolis, and the growingtraffic of the two rivers that washed the meadows foot more than one hundred and fifty years from this 31st day of July, 1880. More than one hundred and fifty years ago—say the Neckers—the first dike was thrownup to reclaim the meadows on which they andtheir fathers fathers have lived and moved andhad their being; fighting the waves at spring tides,and the rheumatiz more at their leisure; butnever much troubled with a dry time, eventhough there be but a fraction of an inch of rain-fall in a month, or a whole dry summer never solong. It is a fat land down there, and has its bless-ings and its drawbacks like other places. A
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Image: The original Seckel Pear tree. Seckel or Sugar Pear. Seckel sugar pears, are the only native American pear grown commercially. (1880. AND HORTICULTURIST. 271 hardy race grows and thrives, and feeds othersout of the rich alluvial, but lays its bones away on higher ground, for water is a sore decayer of your whorson dead body. And SO they lay them down at last, on green and gravelly slopes, afar from the music of the singing birds of their household groves; and so their sons and sons sons have come and warmed the old homes and kept the old names and mansions awhile in the meadows, and then followed on to the narrow house in the higher ground.But this is wandering from the old Pear tree.That, I had some trouble to find, of which moreanon. The facts above stated, expressed more inthe local vernacular, I had from an old Necker,who did not dream himself, but set his listener dreaming. Who munched the pear, and thoughtlessly dropped the core over the side of what vessel, as she passed the Back Channel? And when?It must have been between 1682 and 1720; forthat core floated to ftist land, seeded and inaugurated its celebrate

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