PEARS. 



279 



Specific gravity of its juice 1063. 



The tree of this sort grows handsome and upright. It is 

 hardy when in blossom, and consequently an abundant 

 bearer. The name of Longland is supposed to have been 

 derived from the field in which the original tree grew. 



161. OLDFIELD. Pom. Heref. t. 11. 



Fruit below the middle size, turbinate, somewhat nar- 

 rowed at the crown. Eye small, converging. Stalk half 

 an inch long, slender. Skin a very pale green, spotted and 

 marbled with a darker colour, and intermixed with a thm 

 gray russet. 



Specific gravity of the juice 1067. 



The perry produced from this Pear is excellent ; and from 

 its being a very hardy tree, and an abundant bearer, is more 

 extensively planted in Herefordshire and the adjoining coun- 

 ties, than any other Pear. Its name is believed to have ori- 

 ginated from an enclosure called the Oldfield, near Ledbury, 

 a noted place for the finest perry. 



162. TEINTON SQUASH. Pom. Heref. t. 13. 



Fruit middle-sized, of angular shape, somewhat like that 

 of a Bergamot, but more tapering at the stalk. Crown even, 

 divisions of the calyx spreading. Stalk half an inch long, 

 slender. Skin a muddy russetty green, marbled on the 

 sunny side with a pale brown or dull orange, interspersed 

 with a few ash-coloured specks. 



Specific gravity of its juice not mentioned. 



Its name of Teinton is supposed to have originated from 

 Teinton, in Gloucestershire, where it has been much planted. 

 There are some very old trees of it in the neighbourhood and 

 in Herefordshire, and the perry they produce is of the very 

 highest quality, something approaching in colour and brisk- 

 ness to Champagne, for which fine samples of it have some- 

 times been sold. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



163. GOVERNOR STUYVESANT. 

 Stuyvesant's Spice Pear. 



Fruit of a medium size, pyramidal, large at the eye, and 

 tapering towards the stem. -Stalk long, crooked, and in- 

 serted in a very small cavity, a little sunken. Skin of a 

 greenish yellow with some cloudy patches ; becoming more 

 yellow as it ripens. Flesh yellow and melting, juice sweet, 

 aromatic, and excellent. 



Ripe the middle of August 



