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PERRY PEARS. 



NEWBRIDGE PEAR. 



A Worcestershire variety of considerable age, but, though the 

 trees are large and handsome, and the variety popular, its history is 

 unknown. 



Description. — Fruit : full medium size, roundish oval, tapering 

 a little towards the stalk. Skin : green, with a touch of orange 

 brown on the side towards the sun, covered with minute russet 

 spots, often large towards the eye, with a patch of thin russet round 

 the stalk and eye. Eye : large, inserted on a level, with short 

 upright calyx segments. Stalk : slender, nearly an inch long, 

 inserted without depression. Flesh: very juicy, and sweet, with an 

 astringent after-taste. Juice : plentiful, of a deep amber colour. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Newbridge Pear 



