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Plate XVIII. 
i. THE BARLAND PEAR. 
“ What tho’ the pear tree rival not the Worth 
Of Ariconian Products ? yet her freight 
Is not contemn’d 
Chiefly the Bosbury whose large increase ' 
Annual, in sumptuous Banquets claims applause.” 
(Philips' Cyder.) 
[Syn : Bosbury Pear ; Bareland , or Bearland Pear.'] 
This pear from one of its common names may be supposed to have originated in the parish 
of Bosbury, near Ledbury, Herefordshire. The original tree is said to have grown in a field called 
Bare Lands , on an Estate called “ Bosbury Farm,” and to have been blown down about the end of 
last century. The variety was well established in the 17th century, and in great repute. Evelyn 
(1674) says of it “The Horse Pear, and the Bear-land Pear are reputed of the best, as bearing 
almost their weight of spriteful and vinous Liquor. They will grow in common Fields, gravelly and 
stony Ground to that largeness, as only one tree has been usually known to make three or four 
Hogs-heads.” ( Evelyns Pomona.) 
This fruit is well represented in Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight’s “ Pomona Herefordiensis” 
PI. xxvii. 
Description. —Fruit : small, turbinate, pinched in near the stalk. Skin : bright green, very 
much covered with patches and large dots of thick, pale brown, or ash grey russet, hut not so much so 
as entirely to obscure the green ground colour. Eye: large for the size of the fruit, open, with 
short erect segments; filled with the permanent stamens. Stalk: an inch long, slender, and inserted 
on the end of the fruit without any depression. 
This variety has been much planted in Herefordshire and the adjoining counties. The trees 
have acquired an extraordinary size and height, and they are much distinguished by the beauty of 
