"The Diego peare is but a small peare, but an excellent well rellished
fruit, tasting as if Muske had been put among it; many of them growe
together, as it were in clusters.
"The Duetete or double headed peare, so called of the forme, is a
very good peare, not very great, of a russettish browne colour on the
outside.
"The Primating peare is a good moist peare, and early ripe.
"The Geneting peare is a very good early ripe peare.
"The greene Chesill is a delicate mellow peare, even melting as it
were in the mouth of the eater, although greenish on the outside.
"The Catherine peare is knowne to all I thinke to be a yellow red
sided peare, of a full waterish sweete taste, and ripe with the
foremost.
"The King Catherine is greater than the other, and of the same
goodnesse, or rather better.
"The Russet Catherine is a very good middle sized peare.
"The Windsor peare is an excellent good peare, well knowne to most
persons, and of a reasonable greatnesse: it will beare fruit some
times twice in a yeare (and as it is said) three times in some places.
"The Norwich peare is of two sorts, Summer and Winter, both of them
good fruit, each in their season.
"The Worster peare is blackish, a farre better peare to bake (when as
it will be like a Warden, and as good) than to eate rawe; yet so it is
not to be misliked.
"The Muske peare is like unto a Catherine peare for bignesse, colour,
and forme; but farre more excellent in taste, as the very name
importeth.
"The Rosewater peare is a goodly faire peare, and of a delicate taste.
"The Sugar peare is an early peare, very sweete, but waterish.
"The Summer Popperin } both of them are very good dry firme peares,
} somewhat spotted, and brownish on the
"The Winter Popperin } outside.
"The greene Popperin is a winter fruit, of equall goodnesse with the
former.
"The Soveraigne peare, that which I have seene and tasted, and so
termed unto me, was a small brownish yellow peare, but of a most
dainty taste; but some doe take a kind of Bon Chretien, called the
Elizabeth peare, to be the Soveraigne peare; how truely let others
judge.
"The Kings peare is a very good and well tasted peare.
"The peare Royall is a great peare, and of a good rellish.
"The Warwicke peare is a reasonable faire and good peare.
"The Greenfield peare is a very good peare, of a middle size.
"The Lewes peare is a brownish greene peare, ripe about the end of
September, a resonable well rellished fruit, and very moist.
"The Bishop peare is a middle sized peare, of a reasonable good taste,
not very waterish; but this property is oftentimes seene in it, that
before the fruit is gathered, (but more usually those that fall of
themselves, and the rest within a while after they are gathered) will
be rotten at the core, when there will not be a spot or blemish to
bee seene on the outside, or in all the peare, untill you come neare
the core.
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