The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 601
ale spots. Inside white, soft, juicy,melting, like a butter pear; delicious flavour, peculiar, veryslightly musky, and vinous. The tree which produces the above exquisite fruit wasraised from a seed, received in a letter from Lord Petre ofEngland, about the year 1735, and planted by Mr. Bartramnear… … never been subject to blight, and has not once failed to bearin the last thirty years; some seasons producing 10 or 12bushels of fine handsome fruit, which is in good eating fromthe middle of September to Christmas. The fruit is alwaysworth from three dollars to five dollars a bushel. The stem…
