PLATE XXX. 
6. WHITE SQUASH. 
[Syn : Stanton or Staunton Squash ; Squirt Pear .] 
Nothing seems to be known of the origin of this Pear. Its synonym of Stanton , or Staunton 
Squash, may possibly indicate its origin to be a village of that name between Ledbury and 
Gloucester, but there are other villages called Staunton. 
Description. —Fruit: medium sized, turbinate, even and regular in its outline. Skin : 
yellowish green when ripe, and strewn all over with small russety dots, with here and there a patch 
of russet, and always russety round the stalk and the eye. Eye : open, with short stunted segments 
set in a saucer-like basin. Stalk : an inch long, inserted without depression, and with a fleshy 
swelling on one side of it. Flesh : coarse and crisp. Juice : very abundant of a deep amber 
colour and harshly astringent. 
Mr. With’s analysis of the White Squash Pear (season 1880), is as follows :— 
Density of fresh juice ... ... ... ... rc>46 
Ditto after 24 hours exposure ... ... "... 1*048 
One hundred parts by weight of juice yield :— 
Sugar ... ... ... ... ... io*611 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 2*259 
Water ... ... ... ... ... 87*130 
This Pear is rich and sweet, but it quickly decays, and becomes, with a fair outside, “ rotten 
and squashy at the core.” It makes a good family Perry if taken at the right moment, rich and 
sweet ; but it is “ stubborn to fine,” and its readiness to run into watery decay, makes its power of 
tub filling its chief merit. 
The tree is of small size but a great cropper. It is “ lucky for bearing,” they say, and thus 
it maintains its place. 
