THE ASTON TOWN PEAR.
Aston Town. Hooker Pornon. Loud. p. 18. Forsyth’s Treatise,
p. 162. Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 80. Fruit Cat.
no. 24.
This is an excellent November Pear, resembling
the Swan’s Egg in some respects, although very-
different in others. Mr. Knight has truly remarked,
that it will not come into bearing until six or seven
years after the trees have been grafted ; and that,
like the Crasanne and Colmar, its wood requires,
when pruned, to be left longer than that of pears
in general. When it once comes fairly into fruit,
it is an excellent bearer as a standard, on which
account it is well worth cultivating wherever orchard
fruit is wanted.
It does not keep lon g; but during the period
of its perfection, which is the end of October and
beginning of November, it is among the most delicious
of Pears.
The tree makes long shoots, upright at first, but
afterwards trailing and curving about; the wood
dark greenish yellow, sprinkled with brown spots.
Leaves middle-sized, ovate, acuminate, serrated
towards the point, nearly entire at the base; petioles
short, about the length of the linear-lanceolate
stipules.
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