Tart pears are the best for baking, as the sweet varieties are often tasteless.

The pears were more the concentrated idea of pears than that we take from gardens; the kisil plums, with which the bushes were flaming, are a cloudy, crimson fruit with blood-like juice, very tart, and consequently better cooked than raw.

Marse Dugal' gwine on dat erway, en' he couldn' 'pear to un'erstan' w'at Marse Dugal' was talkin' erbout.

The Golden Pear was a much more attractive place since Jeanne had come back.

PEAR.The pear, like the apple, is indigenous to this country; but the wild pear is a very unsatisfactory fruit.

The best pear for this purpose, also for canning, is a variety called the "Sickle Pear."

PEAR-TREE.This is the parent of all our fine varieties of this fruit, and is used as the stock for propagating them; these are raised from seeds for that purpose.

Bright yellow, red, and orange, The leaves come down in hosts; The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough, It's Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be winter now.

The pear is a hardy tree, and a longer liver than the apple: it has been known to exist for centuries.