3© MODERN PERRY PEARS. 



The great care with which the Committee carried out their 

 next very important duty, that of selecting some of the best Norman 

 Apples to introduce into Herefordshire, is shewn by the Report. 

 The apples they have selected are Rouge Bruyere, Bramtot, 

 Medaille d'or, Bedan-des-Parts, Michelin, Argile Grise, De 

 BouTTEViLLE, and Frequin Audievre. Sections of these several 

 apples with the history, description, and analysis of each of them, 

 will be found in the body of this work. 



The Perry Pears now most in favour in our Orchards are the 

 varieties, Tayntofi Squash; Thorn Pear; Bar land ; Yelloiv and 

 Black Huffcap ; Moorcrojt and White Mooravjt ; the Longlands, 

 Old, WinnaPs, and JVhite Longland; Chaseley Green ; Aylton Red; 

 Butt Pear ; Red Pear ; Thurston Red; Rock Pear (a late Worces- 

 tev.-h're pear of the highest ralue), Dy mock Red ; Turner's Barn, 

 aod there are several other varieties of local repute. 



There can be no question, but that there is a very large per- 

 centage of Vintage Fruit trees in the Orchards at the present time, 

 which should be " grubbed up " as the country phrase hath it, if 

 they are past the age of regrafting at the ends of their branches with 

 better varieties. They are useless for making good cider themselves, 

 and they serve now but to spoil that which is made from other and 

 better apples. The fruit is unsaleable for these reasons, and it would 

 be economy in every sense to turn the trees into faggot wood. 



Orchard Pruning. — The necessary pruning in the Orchard 

 is very apt either to be neglected altogether, or to be carried out in 

 excess. In the one case the boughs grow matted together, and bear 

 their fruit small in size, and deficient in quality ; or in the other, 

 whole boughs are mercilessly lopped off close to the trunk, leaving 

 those great round scars, commonly called " Owls faces," to offend 

 the eye of every good Orchardist ; since they show how deeply the 

 trees have been injured. It would sometimes seem as if the want 

 of faggots suggested "a turn at pruning," when the poor trees are 

 mercilessly attacked, at the cost of their strength and vigour. 



Apple and Pear trees when full grown require very little pruning. 

 " The compleat Planter and Cyderist " says well " while your tree 



