“Vegetables and fruits are very expensive with an avocado pear in town centre costing K2,500 instead of K500 in Ndola.”

“We skipped dessert which included pear tart, Italian summer pudding and tirami su.”

“Sideoats grama, buffalo grass, sagebrush, yucca and prickly pear cactus are also common on the canyon floor and walls.”

“Another is that if an apple be grafted on the pear, the fruit is a pearmain.”

“I store apples for winter in barrels, and find White Winter pearmain keeps best.”

“It is of a pearmain shape, green on the shaded side, red next the sun, and in use from December till March.”

“The peare and holly may be made to spread, and the Oke to close.”

“The Sugar peare is an early peare, very sweete, but waterish.”

“The body of Peare was not permitted to remain long on the gibbet.”

“Fruits such as apples, apricots, quinces, figs, pears, cherries, berries, and grapes grew in orchards or the river valleys.”

“Eighteen lumps of different cheeses littered the table amongst baskets of green and red apples and ripe pears.”

“It has a freshly scented bouquet of pared Granny Smith apples, pears, and ripe berries.”