Bosc and Bartlett

Usage examples of pears.

Jargonelle Pears, as used for flavouring Pear drops and other sweetmeats.

All Pears are cold, and have a binding quality, with an earthy substance in their composition.

It should be noted that Pears dried in the oven, and kept without syrup, will remain quite good, and eatable for a year or more.

There were garnet-red cherries, peridot grapes, apples like great rubies streaked with gold and amber, amethyst blueberries, strawberries glowing like pink charcoal, yellow pears of topaz, lucid gooseberries of translucent green quartz, quinces still on their twigs, melons, pomegranates, polished damsons, figs like blushing drops of jade.

Then apples and pears and grapes and plums spilled into the hands of the courtier.

Already the first astringent apples, cherries, peaches, pears, yellow and red plums were ready to be gathered.

Bartlett pears that had lingered at the back of my kitchen shelves for months.

It was followed by apples, pears, nectarines, and more oranges, which went rolling across the table and off its edges, while the bowl stood on its edge to shake out a floppy bunch of grapes.

When you plant pears you plant for those who come after you, for your heirs.

The best choices for fruit include apples, apricots, pears, oranges, raspberries, plums, kiwi, blueberries, strawberries, grapes, and grapefruit.

The cowboy turned abruptly from the trail and the two headed their horses for the valley rim, the animals picking their way through the patches of prickly pears and clumps of low sage whose fragrant aroma rose as a delicate incense to the nostrils of the girl.

Sagebrush and prickly pears furnished the only vegetation, and the rough, broken surface of the country took on a starved, gaunt appearance.