PLATE XLVI. 
3. PARSONAGE. 
The particular parsonage this Pear comes from is lost to history, and the origin of this 
variety unknown. 
Description. —Fruit : small and round, slightly running up the stalk ; skin of a yellowish 
green colour, tinted with orange on the sunny side, and thickly strewn with very small russet dots. 
Eye : open, with erect segments, and placed on the surface without depression. Stalk : slender, 
an inch long, enlarged at both ends, and set obliquely in the fruit. Flesh : white, with a sweet 
astringent taste and slight Jargonelle flavour. Juice : plentiful, of a pale straw colour, deepening to 
amber after exposure to air. 
The chemical analysis (season 1881) by Mr. With gave these results :— 
Density of fresh juice ... ... ... ... i‘c>46 
Ditto ditto after 24 hours’ exposure to air ... ... 1.052 
And one hundred parts of the juice by weight afforded of— 
Sugar ... ... ... ••• ... 9 - 6oo 
Tannin, Mucilage, .Salts, &c. ... ... ... 4^890 
W ater ... ... ... ... ... 8 ^ ^ 1 o 
The Parsonage Pear is very early, but it decays too quickly to gain much esteem. Its 
perry is neither strong, nor sweet, and it is apt quickly to become ropy. 
The trees are exceedingly large and upright, much resembling the Barland in growth. 
They bear well. This variety has not been propagated of late years. 
