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Incessant melts away. The juicy pear 

 Lies, in a soft profusion, scattered round. 

 A various sweetness swells the gentle race, 

 By nature's all-refining hand prepared, 

 Of tempered sun, and water, earth, and air, 

 In ever-changing composition mixed. 



Thomson. 



Perry is considered the best liquor that 

 can be drunk after a surfeit of mushrooms. 



An agreeable wine is made from the wild 

 pears and crab-apples. 



In general pears are windy, and improper 

 for weak stomachs : those are best that are 

 quite ripe, and have a sweet juice, and then 

 they are seldom noxious ; unless eaten to ex- 

 cess. (Brooks.) 



The pear-tree is liable to be much injured, 

 if pruned by those who do not understand 

 the nature of it. The blossoms are com- 

 monly produced from buds at the ex- 

 tremity of the last year's shoots, and, as 

 these are often cut off by the unskilful pru- 

 ner, it prevents their producing fruit, and 

 causes the boughs to send out new branches, 

 which overfill the tree with wood. The sum- 

 mer is the best time to look over pear-trees, 

 and to remove all superfluous and foreright 

 shoots, which would too much shade the 

 fruit. If this be carefully done, they will 

 require but little pruning in the autumn. 



