PEAR-TREE. 139 



Pear orchards are common in Worcestershire and Here- 

 fordshire, and their effect in spring is beantiful. In autumn, 

 too, their ripe fruit looks well, and the branches of many a 

 widely-spreading tree are upheld by strong supporters, 

 when ready to break down with the abundance of that 

 joyous season. The making of perry succeeds to the 

 gathering of ripe pears, and, among numerous varieties of 

 perry, the Squash, the Oldneld, and the Barley, are reputed 

 the best, and are little inferior to wine. British pomonists 

 would do well to adopt a practice common in Prance, 

 and which greatly improves the flavour and growth of 

 pears, and this is, grafting them on a quince stock, which 

 tends to stunt their growth, and to produce fruit-bearing 

 branches. 



Sugar may be obtained both from pears and apples, which 

 yield about one ounce of sugar from each pound weight 

 of fruit. 



Pear-trees occasionally attain to a great size. A noble 

 specimen may be seen near the parsonage-house at Horn 



