60 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



bearer. Green Pear of Pinkey; a small green pear, nearly 

 round, of a sweetish taste. 



Forrow Cow, a ClydesSale Pear ; a large pear with a 

 short stalk ; flat towards the eye ; its colour red and yellow ; 

 its flesh tender and musked. 



Pear Sauch, a Clydesdale Pear, a big-bellied beautiful 

 pear; the tree large, a great bearer, and fit for an orchard ; the 

 pear but indifferent. 



Gray Honey, pretty good. 



Green Orange Pear, or Orange Vert; a very good pear. 



Brute Bone, Chaw Good, or the Pope's pear ; indifferent. 



Golden Knap, supposed Scotch, is a small summer Pear 

 of tolerably good qualities. 



Early Achan, ah indifferent fruit, greatly inferior to the 

 Winter Pear of that name. 



Hanging Leaf ; this is its name in Clydesdale ; good and 

 beautiful, almost round, its colour red and yellow ; a delicious 

 sweetness is found in its taste. 



Scots Bergamot, a large good pear, of a yellow and red 

 colour ; its flesh tender and juicy. 



Longueville, very good, but a precarious bearer ; sup- 

 posed French, but not in their catalogues by that name. 



Musked Boncretien, Gratioli, Cucumber, or Spinola's 

 Pear ; a very good pear, if grafted on a free stock ; its pulp is 

 somewhat between short and tender, with a great deal of per- 

 fumed juice ; its colour red on one side, and white on the 

 other. 



Saffron Pear ; a pretty large well shaped pear, fit for an 

 orchard. 



AUTUMN PEARS. 



Keather, a Clydesdale Pear, of middling size, and oblong 

 shape, its juice agreeable, 



French Carnock ; tolerably good. 



Elshin Haft, or Good-man Pear ; a long pear, flat towards 

 the eye ; its colour green and yellow ; its flesh hard, dry, and 

 sweet. 



Drummond, or Late Scotch Carnock ; very good, if eaten 

 before it grows mealy ; its colour a bright red and yellow. 



Vicar, an oblong pear, its colour yellow, red and striped, 

 tender, sweet, and musked, but dry. 



Royal Orange Bergamot ; this differs from the Orange 

 Bergamot in being yellower, and sometimes having a faint red 

 on one side. 



