Exhibited before and reported on at various times by the Massachusetts and New Haven Horticultural Societies as a baking variety. Probably a seedling of Governor Edwards.
Black Huffcap. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 531. 1884.
A well-known perry pear cultivated in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Eng. Fruit quite small, pyriform or oblong-ovate, olive-green on the shaded side and covered with dull rusty red on the sun-exposed side; flesh yellowish-green, firm and very gritty.
Black Sorrel. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 593. 1629.
Described by Parkinson in 1629 as “a reasonable great long peare, of a darke red colour on the outside.”
Black Worcester. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 429. 1845. 2. Ibid. 702. 1869. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 531. 1884. 4. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fruits 160. 1920.
Worster. 5. Parkinson Par. Ter. 592. 1629.
Black Pear of Worcester. 6. Langley Pomona 133, Pl. LXXI, fig. 2. 1729.
Livre. 7. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:235. 1768. 8. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:346. 1869.
Iron Pear. 9. Cole Am. Fr. Book 174. 1849.