"The Wilford peare is a good and a faire peare.
"The Bell peare a very good greene peare.
"The Portingall peare is a great peare, but more goodly in shew than
good indeed.
"The Gratiola peare is a kinde of Bon Chretien, called the Cowcumber
peare, or Spinola's peare.
"The Rowling peare is a good peare, but hard, and not good before it
bee a little rowled or bruised, to make it eate the more mellow.
"The Pimpe peare is as great as the Windsor peare, but rounder, and of
a very good rellish.
"The Turnep peare is a hard winter peare, not so good to eate rawe, as
it is to bake.
"The Arundell peare is most plentifull in Suffolke, and there
commended to be a verie good peare.
"The Berry peare is a Summer peare, reasonable faire and great, and of
so good and wholesome a taste, that few or none take harme by eating
never so many of them.
"The Sand peare is a reasonable good peare, but small.
"The Morley peare is a very good peare, like in forme and colour unto
the Windsor, but somewhat grayer.
"The peare pricke is very like unto the Greenfield peare, being both
faire, great, and good.
"The good Rewell is a reasonable great peare, as good to bake as to
eate rawe, and both wayes it is a good fruit.
"The Hawkes Bill peare is of a middle size, somewhat like unto the
Rowling peare.
"The Petworth peare is a winter peare, and is great, somewhat long,
faire, and good.
"The Slipper peare is a reasonable good peare.
"The Robert peare is a very good peare, plentiful in Suffolke and
Norfolke.
"The Pound peare is a reasonable good peare, both to eate rawe, and to
bake.
"The Ten Pound peare, or the hundred pound peare, the truest and best,
is the best Bon Chretien of Syon, so called, because the grafts cost
the Master so much the fetching by the messengers expences, when he
brought nothing else.
"The Gilloflower peare is a winter peare, faire in shew, but hard, and
not fit to bee eaten rawe, but very good to bake.
"The peare Couteau is neither good one way nor other.
"The Binsce peare is a reasonable good winter peare, of a russetish
colour, and a small fruit: but will abide good a long while.
"The Pucell is a greene peare, of an indifferent good taste.
"The blacke Sorrell is a reasonable great long peare, of a darke red
colour on the outside.
"The red Sorrell is of a redder colour, else like the other.
"The Surrine is no very good peare.
"The Summer Hasting is a little greene peare, of an indifferent good
rellish.
"Peare Gergonell is an early peare, somewhat long, and of a very
pleasant taste.
"The white Genneting is a reasonable good peare, yet not equall to the
other.
"The Sweater is somewhat like the Windsor for colour and bignesse, but
nothing neare of so good a taste.
"The bloud red peare is of a darke red colour on the outside, but
piercing very little into the inner pulpe.
"The Hony peare is a long greene Summer peare.
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