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PERRY PEARS. 



WHITE LONGLAND. 



[Syn : White Horse Pear.] 



The origin of this Pear seems to be unknown, but it is noticed 

 by Dr. Beale in his '■'■ Herefordshire Orchards'' (1657). 



Description. — Fruit : oblong, obovate, even and regular in its 

 outline. Skin : very thickly sprinkled with large russet dots and 

 tracings of russet, and with a solid patch surrounding the stalk ; on 

 the exposed side it has a thin pale red cheek, and on the shaded 

 side, it is yellowish green. Eye : open, with short, incurved 

 segments, set in a shallow depression. Stalk : half an inch long, 

 woody, inserted in a narrow and shallow cavity. Flesh : yellowish, 

 firm, coarse-grained, briskly acid and sweet. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the White Longland 

 (season 1879), by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., Trinity 



