328 Description of Scotch Pears. 



LVI. Black Bess of Castle 

 Menzies. I think a healthy 

 variety of the Black Achan, 

 wrought on a Pear tree which 

 bore roundish fruit, as the 

 shape of the fruit of the Stock 

 has often a slight effect in as- 

 similating the fruit of the tree 

 it supports to its own, in shape. 



LVII. Black Achan. This 

 well known and excellent Pear 

 requires no description. 



