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Honeydew

Synonyms: Honeyknapp, Honeyknob, Hessle

From Teddington, although a perry variety, its fruit is sweet and refreshing enough to eat during the corn harvest.

Status: Critical

For further information on this and other pears, please see "Pears of Gloucestershire and Perry Pears of the Three Counties" by Charles Martell.

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Identified by Eric Freeman of Newent as a variety he remembered from his boyhood in the 1940s.

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