“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.