Excerpt from Poulson's Town and Country Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord, 1789: Being the First After Leap-Year Pear trees of good quality grow wild in fome places. Thefe are more hardy than thofe oi the orchard. Place inch in groves for mak ing perry, which is a valuable liquor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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