PLATE XXX. 
7. CHASELEY GREEN. 
[Syn : Hartpury Green .] 
This Pear is believed to have originated in the parish of Chaseley, a scattered village in the 
district formerly called Malvern Chase. It is also called Hartpury Green from the village of 
Hartpury in Gloucestershire, where it is much grown. It is without history. 
Description. —Fruit : below medium size, two inches across and one inch and three-eighths 
high, round and flattened above and below. Skin : thick, of a fresh, pale green colour, becoming 
yellowish ; thickly studded with very distinct, thick, white, russet spots, like scales. Eye : very 
open and shallow with small upright segments ; set in a wide and shallow basin. Stalk : stout, 
from half to three-quarters of an inch in length ; inserted without depression, but having often an 
irregular elevation of the fruit near it. Flesh : white, firm, more or less gritty. Juice : pale, 
mucilaginous, with a sweet, acid and astringent flavour. 
Mr. With’s analysis of the Chaseley Green Pear (season 1880), is as follows 
Density of fresh juice ... ... ... ... i'047 
Ditto after 24 hours exposure ... ... ... rc>5o 
One hundred parts by weight of fresh juice yield :— 
Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 8*4 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 5 - 6 
Water ... ... ... ... ... 86‘o 
The fruit of the Chaseley Green Pear, though- capable of making a strong rough Perry, does 
not possess sufficient flavour to be used alone, except perhaps for home use. It resembles the 
Holmer pear very much in shape, appearance, and character, but is larger in size. 
The tree grows well, and with-upright growth, until its branches are bent down with the 
weight of fruit. It is a very prolific bearer. The variety is much grown in the lower valley of the 
Severn, both in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire ; but it is somewhat local, and has only as yet 
crept into Herefordshire in the neighbourhood of Ledbury, viz., at Eastnor, the Homend, and 
Eggleton, where there are many trees, and where it is called the Hartpury Green pear. 
