PLATE XXX. 
3. THURSTON’S RED. 
[Syn : Dymock Redh\ s 
The old family of the Thurstons held the estate of the Whitehouse, in the parish of 
Dymock, for several generations. Mr. Wm. Thurston now lives there, and has several fine 
trees of Thurston Red Pear. He was told by his father that Mr. John Hiatt, formerly of Merrables 
Farm, Dymock, a great fruit grower in his day, had grafted the young stocks there from the 
Whitehouse trees. This Whitehouse has the credit of being the birthplace of John Kyrle, the 
Man of Ross. It is believed also to be the place in which the Pear that bears the family name of 
Thurston originated. Some eight or nine trees have died there from old age ; so the variety is 
ancient though it has no history. It is now described and figured for the first time. 
Description .—Fruit : small, turbinate, even in its outline, but often fuller on one side than 
the other. Skin : smooth, greenish yellow with a thin red cheek on the side next the sun ; has 
often a large patch of thin pale brown russet, especially round the eye, and a few spots here and 
there over the surface. Eye : small and open, set in a saucer-like basin. Stalk : slender, an inch 
and a quarter long, set on the point of the fruit without depression. Flesh : yellowish and firm. 
Juice : thin, deep straw colour, sweetish with an astringent aromatic flavour. 
Mr. With’s analysis of the Thurston s Red Pear (season 1880), is as follows :— 
Density of fresh juice ... ... ... ... 1*035 
Ditto after 24 hours exposure to air ... ... 1*036 
One hundred parts by weight of the juice contains :— 
Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 9*20 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 2*84 
Water ... ... ... ... ... 87*96 
This analysis is not favourable. It proves the juice to be thin and poor, and thus does not 
bear out the favourable character which many growers seem disposed to give it. The fruit clings 
