414 PEARS. 



In use from Christmas till April. 



This does not succeed on an open standard ; but it 

 may be trained as an espalier, where it has a warm aspect, 

 when it will bear and ripen very well. 



It, however, deserves an east or south-east wall, and 

 if well managed it will grow to a very large size. I 

 have gathered it of seventeen inches its greatest, and 

 fifteen inches its least, circumference, weighing thirty- 

 one avoirdupois ounces ; but a Pear of this sort, sent 

 from Mr. Maisson, of Jersey, was exhibited at the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, December 19. 1826, which weighed 

 forty-four ounces. 



Dr. Uvedale, whose name appears to this Pear, was 

 one of the most eminent horticulturists of his time. 

 He lived at Eltham in 1690, and had a garden at En- 

 field in 17^4, which is noticed by Miller in the first 

 edition of his Dictionary in that year. 



SECT. VIII. Perry Pears. 



157. BARLAND. Pom. Herefordiensis, t. 27- 



Fruit rather small, of an oval figure, but broadest 

 towards the crown. Eye prominent, and the segments 

 of the calyx nearly erect. Stalk half an inch long, 

 slender. Skin dull green, russetted with a muddy 

 grey. 



Specific gravity of its juice 1070. 



The Barland Pear appears to have been extensively 

 cultivated prior to the publication of Evelyn's Pomorla 

 in 1674, and many thousand hogsheads of its perry are 

 yet made annually in Herefordshire and the adjoining 

 counties, in a productive season. It may be mixed in 

 considerable quantity with new port without its taste 

 becoming perceptible. It sells well whilst new to the 

 merchants, and as it is comparatively cheap, it probably 

 forms one of the ingredients employed in the adulter- 

 ation of this wine. The original tree grew in a field 



