PERRY PEARS. 215 



Description. — Fruit : small, turbinate, even in its outline, but 

 often fuller on one side than the other. Skin : smooth, greenish 

 yellow, with a thin red cheek on the side next the sun ; it has often 

 a large patch of thin, pale brown russet, especially round the eye, 

 and a few spots here and there over the surface. Eye : small, and 

 open, set in a saucer-like basin. Stalk : slender, an inch and a 

 quarter long, set on the point of the fruit without depression. 

 Flesh : yellowish and firm. Juice: thin, deep straw colour, sweetish, 

 with an astringent, aromatic odour. 



The Chemical analysis of the juice of the Thurston Red Pear 

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

 College, Dublin, gave the following results : — 



Density of fresh juice ... ... i'035 



Ditto after 24 hours' exposure to air ... i'036 

 100 parts of juice by weight, yielded of 



Sugar ... ... ... ... 9 "200 



Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, cVc. ... ... 2 "840 



Water ... ... ... ... 87"96o 



This analysis is not favourable. It proves the juice to be thin 

 and poor, and thus does not bear out the favourable character 

 many growers give it. The fruit clings to the tree and keeps well, 

 and hence is the more useful. It is a very local variety. 



The tree is hardy with a nice upright growth, and bears well. 

 It is cultivated extensively at Paunlly and Newent in Gloucestershire, 

 and in the surrounding districts. Pauntly Court was long in the 

 possession of the Whittingtons, from whom came the celebrated 

 Dick, thrice Lord Mayor of London. Thus the Thurston Red 

 Pear affects places of note. 



