212 PERRY PEARS. 



parish without them, and they are scattered widely, but nowhere in 

 great abundance. There are eleven trees on Aylestone Hill, 

 Hereford ; ten trees at Eggleton ; and others scattered in less 

 numbers, but many are dying from age. The Woolhope Club is 

 successfully cultivating young trees. 



THORN PEAR. 



An old variety without any known history. 



Description. — Fruit : of full medium size or rather above it, of 

 a blunt pyriform shape. Skin : of a light orange colour, with a 

 crimson tint on the sunny side, and covered with thin russet specks 

 over the surface. Eye : open, and scarcely depressed, calyx 

 segments, incurved anther stiles, very long and erect. Stalk : 



