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Potato Pear

Potato Pear

Potato PearFrom Ruardean and known down in Monmouthshire. So named because it looks like a potato.

Origin: Ruardean

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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Pear of the Moment

Water Lugg
Water Lugg

Identified as the result of the re-discovery of Herbert Durham’s 1923 photograph album. One tree forms part of an avenue of pears planted at the Hellens, Much Marcle in 1710.

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