1 88 PERRY PEARS. 



Chase. It is also called Hartpury Green, from the village of 

 Hartpury, in Gloucestershire, where it is much grown. It is without 

 any known history. 



Description. — Fruit : below middle size, two inches across and 

 one inch and three-eighths high, round and flattened above and 

 below. Skin : thick, of a fresh, pale green colour, becoming 

 yellowish ; thickly studded with very distinct, thick, white, russet 

 spots like scales. Eye : very open and shallow, with small upright 

 segments set in a wide and shallow basin. Stalk : stout, from half 

 to three-quarters of an inch in length, inserted without depression, 

 but having often an irregular elevation of the fruit near it. Flesh : 

 white, firm, more or less gritty. Juice : pale, mucilaginous, with a 

 sweet, acid, and astringent flavour. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Chaseky Green 

 (season 1880), by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., Trinity 

 College, Dublin, gave the following results : — 



The fruit of the Chaseky Green pear, though capable of mak- 

 ing a strong and rough perry, does not possess sufficient flavour to 

 be used alone, except perhaps for home use. It resembles the 

 Holmer Pear very much in shape, appearance and character, but 

 is larger in size. 



The tree has an upright growth until its boughs are bent 

 down with the weight of fruit, for it is a prolific bearer. This 

 pear is much grown in the lower valley of the Severn, both in 

 Worcestershire and Gloucestershire ; but it has only as yet crept 

 into Herefordshire, in the neighbourhood of Ledbury, that is at 

 Eastnor, the Homend and Eggleton, where there are many trees, 

 and where it bears the name of Hartpury Green. 



