212 PEARS. 



pear or blossom, though growing among trees which 

 have all borne the original trees perished from the 

 blight, but the young orchard thrives well, and prom- 

 ises to be not the less valuable eventually from the 

 lateness of its maturity : the kinds are. 



1st, TAUNTON SQUASH. 



The fruit of highest estimation in England for perry; 

 it is an early pear, remarkable for the tenderness of 

 its flesh if it drops ripe from the tree it bursts from 

 the fall, whence probably its name the liquor made 

 from it, is pale, sweet, remarkably clear and of strong 

 body ; it bears a price fourfold of other perry. 



2nd. THE BARLAND. 3rd. THE BESBERRY. 



In addition to the foregoing selection, there are 

 ny kinds of pears cultivated in this and the neighbour- 

 ing States, which have been recommended by their 

 size, beauty, or the partiality of those who had not the 

 means of comparing them with the finer kinds, which 

 were a few years ago unknown in this country, but are 

 now extensively cultivated by the admirers of good 

 fruit among us of this description are the following 

 kiuds, growing in my orchards. 



