PLATE XLVI. 
7. ARLINGHAM SQUASH. 
[ S vn : Green Squash of Evelyn .] 
This Pear is undoutedly a very old variety, and probably originated and took its name from 
the village of Arlingham, in Gloucestershire. This parish is formed by a nook of land surrounded 
on three sides by the river Severn, opposite Newnham. It has a rich alluvial soil, and many very 
old and large trees of the Arlingham Squash Pear formerly grew there. Some few of them are still 
remaining, “all grafted,” says Mr. Sayer, “by a single scion, and about the years 1700 to 1750;” 
this gentleman believes it to be the same as the Green Squash Pear mentioned by Evelyn. 
Description. —Fruit : a full medium size, roundish, almost Bergamotte shaped, but more 
irregular and lumpy. Skin : of a deep green colour, with a tinge of faint light red on the sunny side ; 
the surface strewed all over with small brown spots ot russet, and with patches of deep brown russet 
round the eye, the insertion of the stalk, and here and there about the body of the pear. Eye : an 
open ring, with traces of erect segments. Stalk : half an inch long, very thick and enlarged at the 
base. Flesh : coarse and gritty, with an abundant juice of a deep amber colour, with a delicate 
