One of the local gennet pears found on a farm south of Gloucester. Gennets are sweet early pears also called Jennet, Hedge or Harvest pears. The were once used, often with the addition of crab apples, to make a quick maturing “harvest” perry. In 1878 it was recorded that “few homesteads were without a few Early Jennet trees, which still bear bountifully, though of an enormous age”.
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