35% PEARS. 



Harvey, Esq., and planted in his garden at Catton, near 

 Norwich, about sixty years ago, along with some plants 

 of the Dutch Mignonne Apple, both sorts of which are 

 now growing. 



SECT. III. Autumnal. Round-fruited. 



41. ASTON TOWN. Hooker, Pom. Lond. 1. 18. 

 Aston Town. Pom. Mag. t. 139. 

 Fruit middle-sized, of a roundish turbinate figure, 

 somewhat like a narrow-crowned Crasanne, but more 

 tapered next the stalk, about two inches and a half deep, 

 and nearly the same in diameter. Eye small, shallow. 

 Stalk one inch and a half long, slender, protruding in 

 a direct line from the base, and inserted with but little 

 cavity. Skin pale greenish white, rugose, covered with 

 numerous grey russetty specks, like the Crasanne. Flesh 

 tender, buttery, and full of a most excellent saccharine 

 perfumed juice. 



Ripe the beginning and to the end of October. 

 Branches long and rather slender, flagelliform, with 

 a manner of growing peculiar to this tree, that is, a 

 tendency to twist round in growing upwards ; so that at 

 a distance, when planted as a standard, it may be dis- 

 tinguished from every other sort. 



This most excellent Pear is at present but little 

 known in many parts of England. It is, however, well 

 known, and extensively cultivated in the north-west 

 counties of Lancaster, Chester, and Hereford. In the 

 latter county, particularly at Shobden Court, and at 

 Garnstone, it is grown in abundance, both on walls, 

 espaliers, and on open standards, where it furnishes con- 

 stant crops of most perfect fruit, fully equal in goodness 

 to those of the Crasanne, which it somewhat resembles. 

 It was raised many years ago at Aston, in Cheshire. 



42. AUTUMN BERGAMOT. Miller, No. 32. Pom. 

 Mag. 1. 120. 



