PLATE LVIII. 
7. NEWBRIDGE PEAR. 
A Worcestershire variety of considerable age, but though the trees are large and handsome 
and the variety popular, its history is unknown, and it is now described for the first time. 
Description .—Fruit : full medium size, roundish oval, tapering a little towards the stalk. 
Skin : green, with a touch of orange brown on the side towards the sun, covered with minute russet 
spots, often large towards the eye, with a patch of thin russet round the stalk and eye. Eye : 
large, inserted on a level, with short upright calyx segments. Stalk : slender, nearly an inch long, 
inserted without depression. Flesh : very juicy, and sweet, with an astringent after taste. Juice : 
plentiful of a deep amber colour. 
The chemical analysis of the juice by Mr. With (season 1882), is as follows :— 
Density of the fresh juice ... 
Ditto after 24 hours exposure to air 
One hundred parts of the juice contained, of 
Sugar 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. 
Water 
1-049 
1- 049 
10-030 
2- 670 
87-300 
This is an early variety, and its perry should be made in October, as soon as the first pear 
falls to the ground. The fruit is so very juicy, that but little refuse is left in the hairs. Twenty 
kipes of fruit will make a hogshead of clean drink. The perry is very luscious and pleasant 
flavoured, of light colour, strong and clear. 
The trees are very large and robust. The trunks are covered with bark as rugged and 
picturesque as the Spanish Chestnut, and the timber is well carried up into the branches. It is 
very hardy and bears well. It is a very old and favourite sort. Some very fine trees are to be 
seen at Rye Court, Berrow, and in other Worcestershire orchards. 
