Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp / a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

by John Parkinson

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.

The Winter peare is of many sorts, but this is onely so called, to bee distinguished from all other Winter peares, which haue seuerall names giuen them, and is a very good peare.

The Warden or Luke Wards peare of two sorts, both white and red, both great and small.

The Spanish Warden is greater then either of both the former, and better also.