THE 
EARLY HISTORY OF THE 
APPLE AND PEAR. 
V Uyx ias ^ 01 ^wtcas Tpis/calSe/ca teal Sera /mtjXcus 
crvKsas Tecra-apaKOvra ” Homer. Odyssey XXIV. jjg. 
(c. 700 B.C.) 
“ Twelve pear trees bowing with their pendant load 
And ten, that red with blushing apples glowed, 
Full fifty purple figs.” Pope. 
“ Pomaque et Alcinoi Silvas: nec surculus idem 
Crustumiis Syriisque piris, gravibusque volemis.” 
Virgil. Geo. II. 8j-g. 
(c. 40 B.C.) 
“ So apples and Phseacian orchards gleam 
With divers hues : and pears diversely team 
Crustumian, Syrian, and the big Yoleme.” 
Blackmore. 
“ Pornis proprietas pyrisque vini.” 
Pliny. Hat. Hist. I.XV. c. 15. 
(c. a.d. 50.) 
“ Wine may be made from apples and from pears.” 
“ Kent doth abound with apples of most sortes, but I have seene in the pastures 
and hedgerowes about the grounds of a worshippfull Gentleman dwelling two miles from 
Hereford, called M. Roger Bodnome , so many trees of all sortes that the seruants drinke 
for the most part no other drinke but that which is made of Apples. The quantitie is 
such, that by the report of the Gentleman himselfe, the Parson hath for tithe many 
hogsheads of Syder.” 
Gerarde. Herb all. (1597.) 
The fruits that have ever been most widely cultivated are the Apple and the Pear. The trees 
grow freely and without trouble in all temperate climates. The beauty and fragrance of the 
blossom give a charm to Spring, and in Autumn the fruit is varied, delicious, and abundant. It is 
