“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.
“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.