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HASTING-PEAR

Volume 5 · 52 words · 1810 Edition

name given by the gardeners to a species of pear, called also by some the green chaff pear. This is a moderately large pear, and is length towards the pedicel; its skin is thin, and of a whitish green; the pulp is melting, and of a fugitive flavour. It ripens in July.