2l8 PERRY PEARS. 



a village of that name, between Ledbury and Gloucester, but there 

 are other villages called Staunton. 



Description. — Fruit : middle sized, turbinate, even, and regular 

 in outline. Skin : yellowish green when ripe, and strewn all over 

 with small russety dots, and here and there a patch of russet, and 

 always russety round the stalk and the eye. Eye : open, with short, 

 stunted segments, set in a saucer like basin. Stalk : an inch long, 

 inserted without depression, and with a fleshy swelhng on one side 

 of it. Flesh : coarse and crisp. Juice : very abundant, of a 

 deep amber colour, and harshly astringent. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the White Squash Pear 

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

 College, Dublin, gave the following results : — 



This Pear is rich and sweet, but it quickly decays, and becomes, 

 with a fair outside " rotten and squashy in the flesh." It makes a 

 good family Perry if taken at the right moment, rich and sweet ; 

 but it is " stubborn to fine," and its readiness to run into watery 

 decay, makes its power of cask filling, its chiet merit. 



The tree is of small size, but a great cropper. It is " lucky 

 for bearing " they say, and thus it maintains its place in the orchard. 



