Pears Sentence Examples

Apples and pears are the chief sorts of fruit exported.

Apples, pears and cherries are grown throughout the oak region.

When the fruit and vegetable gardens are combined, the smaller and choicer fruit trees only should be admitted, such larger-growing hardy fruits as apples, pears, plums, cherries, &c., being relegated to the orchard.

This may be due to frost, especially in thin-barked trees, and often occurs in beeches, pears, &c.; or it may result from bruising by wind, hailstones, gun-shot wounds in coverts, &c., the latter of course very local.

Cultivated pears, whose number is enormous, are without doubt derived from one or two wild species widely distributed throughout Europe and western Asia, and sometimes forming part of the natural vegetation of the forests.

Natanz pears are famous throughout the country.

Two more dissimilar pears hardly exist.

Apples, cherries and pears are the principal orchard fruits.

In the neighbourhood large quantities of fruit are grown, including apples, pears, plums, gooseberries, and strawberries.

Those indigenous to the country are the delicious chirimoyas, paltas or alligator pears, the paccay, a species of Inga, the lucma, and the granadilla or fruit of the passion-flower.

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No winter wheat can be grown, and the climate is too harsh for the larger fruits, such as apples, pears, peaches, plums and grapes; but such hardy small fruits as currants, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries may be grown in abundance.

Strong-growing pears, for instance, are grafted on the quince stock in order to restrict their tendency to form " gross " shoots and a superabundance of wood in place of flowers and fruit.

Where apples, pears, peaches, grapes, &c., have set fruit thickly, thin out at least one-half to two-thirds of the young fruit.

Fruits abound, as apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, chestnuts and almonds; mulberries are also cultivated.

Indian corn, quinoa, mandioca, possibly the potato, cotton and various fruits, including the strawberry, were already known to the aborigines, but with the conqueror came wheat, barley, oats, flax, many kinds of vegetables, apples, peaches, apricots, pears, grapes, figs, oranges and lemons, together with alfalfa and new grasses for the plains.

His hobby was gardening, and it is believed that many of the 123 varieties of pears and 146 varieties of apples for which the district is famous were due to his skill and enterprise.

Pears, apples, quinces, mulberries an d other fruit-trees flourish, as well as vines; the Cretan wines, however, no longer enjoy the reputation which they possessed in the time of the Venetians.

Fruits normally form the principal crop; the total value for 1907-8 of the fruit crops of the state (including oranges, lemons, limes, grape-fruit, bananas, guavas, pears, peaches, grapes, figs, pecans, &c.) was $6,160,299, according to the report of the State Department of Agriculture.

We can talk of five apples and ten pears.

But what are "five" and "ten" apart from the apples and pears?

Tuna are much eaten under the name of prickly pears, and are greatly esteemed for their cooling properties.

The value of the fruit crop, for which Delaware has long been noted, also increased during the same decade, but disease and frost caused a marked decline in the production of peaches, a loss balanced by an increased production of apples, pears and other orchard fruits.

Of the former the chief kinds are pears, apples, plums, apricots, peaches, persimmons and melons.

Benton Harbor has a large trade in fruit (peaches, grapes, pears, cherries, strawberries, raspberries and apples) and other market garden produce raised in the vicinity.

The county is specially famed for cherries and filberts, but apples, pears, plums, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries and currants are also largely cultivated.

The number of peach-trees, especially in the west part of the state, where the quality is of the best, is rapidly increasing, and in the yield of peaches and nectarines the state ranked thirteenth in 1899; in the yield of pears it ranked fifth; in apples seventeenth.

Peaches and pears grow in large quantities in Kent and neighbouring counties on the East Shore and in Washington and Frederick counties; apples grow in abundance in all parts of the Piedmont Plateau.

Kentucky also grows considerable quantities of cherries, pears, plums and peaches, and, for its size, ranks high in its crops of strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.

Apples, pears and grapes are successfully grown throughout the central and southern sections, but peaches and cherries chiefly south of Lake Winnepesaukee.

The chief fruit-growing districts have long been in southern and western Ontario and in Nova Scotia; but recently much attention has been devoted to fruit-growing in British Columbia, where large areas of suitable land are available for the cultivation of apples, pears and other fruits.

Apples, pears, plums and cherries are the principal kinds of fruit cultivated, while the wild red cranberries from the Harz and the black bilberries from the Luneburger Heide form an important article of export.

Peaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries and the more tender varieties of plums and pears succeed well in houses of this kind.

The French Paradise is the best dwarfing stock for apples, and the quince for pears.

In a soil, for example, naturally moist, it is proper to graft pears on the quince, because this plant not only thrives in such a soil, but serves to check the luxuriance thereby produced.

In order to bring a young tree into the cordon shape, all its side branches are shortened back, either to form permanent spurs, as in the case of pears, or to yield annual young shoots, as in peaches and nectarines.

Cordons of apples and pears have to be similarly treated, but cordons of peaches and nectarines are pruned so as to provide the necessary annual succession of young bearing wood.

Orchard-house trees, and also pyramidal and bush trees of apples, pears and plums, are mainly fashioned by summer pruning; in fact, the less the knife is used upon them, except in the necessary cutting of the roots in potted trees, the better.

Though sometimes adopted, it is not so well suited as the horizontal form for apples and pears, because, when the branches reach the top of the wall, where they must FIG.

The best walls having a south or south-east aspect are devoted to the peach, nectarine, apricot, dessert pears, plums and early cherries.

Morello cherries, apples and stewing pears succeed well on a north wall.

Gather and lay up in the fruit-room with care the autumnal sorts of apples and pears.

Gather and store all sorts of apples and pears, the longest-keeping sorts not before the end of the month, if the weather be mild.

Gather and store the latest apples and pears.

All the commoner sorts of fruitapples, pears, cherries, &c.grow everywhere, but the more delicate kinds, such as figs, apricots and peaches, are confined to the warmer districts.

The best-known fruits, besides dates and grapes, are figs, sycamore-figs and pomegranates, apricots and peaches, oranges and citrons, lemons and limes, bananas, which are believed to be of the fruits of Paradise (being always in season), different kinds of melons (including some of aromatic flavour, and the refreshing water-melon), mulberries, Indian figs or prickly pears, the fruit of the lotus and olives.

From 1889 to 1899 there was a distinct decline in the production of apples and peaches, but there was a great increase in that of cherries, plums and pears.

Bananas are the most important crop. Other fruits grown in smaller quantities include oranges, figs, dates, pineapples, guavas, custard-apples and prickly pears.

The supremacy of the state is established in the growth of oranges, lemons, citrons, olives, figs, almonds, Persian (or English) walnuts, plums and prunes, grapes and raisins, nectarines, apricots and pomegranates; it also leads in pears and peaches, but here its primacy is not so assured.

Almonds, as well as peaches, pears, plums, cherries and apricots, come mainly from the north.

They were introduced by the Franciscans (as were various other subtropical fruits, pears and grapes), but their scientific betterment and commercial importance date from about 1885.

There are large railway car construction and repair shops here, and Way - cross is a commercial centre for the forest products (naval stores and lumber) and the cotton, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, melons and pears of the surrounding country.

Madison is a trading centre of the surrounding farming region, whose principal products are burley tobacco, grain and fruits (peaches, apples, pears, plums and small fruits).

Apples, peaches, plums, apricots, pears, cherries and melons have been introduced.

During the warmer months, however, the mountain sides are richly clothed with the foliage of maple, mountain ash, apple, pear and walnut trees; the orchards furnish, not only apples and pears, but peaches, cherries, mulberries and apricots; and the farmers grow sufficient corn to export.

The chief industry is the manufacture of woollens (blankets, hosiery), but brewing, tanning and iron-founding are carried on, and fruit (especially pears) and garden produce are in repute.

Fruit is very abundant, especially apples and pears, from which much cider and perry are made.

Some fruits are famous and vie in excellence with any that European orchards produce; such are the peaches of Tabri2 and Meshed, the sugar melons of Kashan and Isfahan, the apRIes of Demavend, pears of Natanz, figs of KermgnshAh, &c. Ihe strawberry was brought to Persia about 1859, and is much cultivated in the gardens of Teherfln and neighborhood; the raspberry was introduced at about the same time, but is not much apprecIated.

Temperate fruits - peaches, pears, apples, apricots and small fruits - do excellently; as do all important vegetables.

The production of orchard fruits (apples, cherries, peaches, pears, plums and prunes) increased greatly from 1889 to 1899; the six counties of Ada, Canyon (probably the leading fruit county of the state), Latah (famous for apples), Washington, Owyhee and Nez Perce had in 1900 89% of the plum and prune trees, 85% of all pear trees, 78% of all cherry trees, and 74% of all apple trees in the state, and in 1906 it was estimated by the State Commissioner of Immigration that there were nearly 48,000 acres of land devoted to orchard fruits in Idaho.

In Monmouth, Camden and parts of Burlington and Gloucester counties great quantities of pears are grown.

On the upland fruit farms, although apples, pears, medlars, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and melons thrive, the chief attention is given to damsons, from which is extracted a mild spirit (tsuica), highly esteemed throughout Rumania.

To a slight extent it is possible to grow fruit of distinctively southern habitat, but even pears (a prominent and valuable crop) are uncertain in returns.

Apples are grown to best advantage in the north-west quarter; peaches on the Arkansas border; pears along the Mississippi; melons in the sandy regions of the embayment; small fruits in the south-west.

There are few indigenous fruits; the kei apple is the fruit of a small tree or shrub found in Kaffraria and the eastern districts, where also the wild and Kaffir plums are common; hard pears, gourds, water melons and species of almond, chestnut and lemon are also native.

Cultivated fruits, such as apples, pears, peaches, plums, grapes and berries, are raised in large quantities for the market.

From Beybazar come the fine pears sold in Constantinople as "Angora pears"; its muskmelons are equally esteemed; its grapes are used only for a sweetmeat called jevizli-sujuk (" nutty fruit sausage").

Of the fruits grown, chestnuts, cider-apples, and pears are most important.

The environs are occupied by vineyards, gardens and orchards, in which madder, saffron and tobacco, as well as figs, peaches, pears and other fruits, are cultivated.

Cider-apples and pears are grown throughout the district.

In 1905 there were 12,683 acres of apples, 2098 acres of pears, 1111 acres of apricots, 1123 acres of plums, 426 acres of cherries, 498 acres of peaches, 2000 acres of strawberries, gooseberries and raspberries, and 1107 acres of currants.

The crop for the same year included 1,100,000 bushels of apples, 75,000 bushels of pears, and nearly 170,000 bushels of other fruit.

Fruit makes a great, filling dessert try stewed apples or poached pears at this time of year.

Later Wendy cooked ham & peaches followed by pears in reluctant molten Mars Bar sauce.

Wash, core and slice the pears and peel the oranges and add to the blender.

The poached pears, which can also be prepared in advance, are also easy to cook.

Peel, core and chop pears, add to onions and garlic.

These are perry pears, which tend to be smaller & harder then dessert pears.

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Wash and slice the pears and peel and chop the pineapple and pour into the blender.

The local stalls sell prickly pears, aubergines in every shape and colored Coca-Cola bottles filled with a yogurt drink.

For variety, add raisins, rhubarb, or pears.

Typical aromas are poached pears, white peach, winter melon and ginger spice.

Desserts include an ice cream sundae or poached pears in a pecan crust.

Pear and chocolate also work well â for an indulgent treat, serve poached pears, drizzled with chocolate sauce.

A few gray wisps remain to break pears of sweat that roll down from the wrinkled neck.

The word "pear" or its equivalent occurs in all the Celtic languages, while in Slavonic and other dialects different appellations, but still referring to the same thing, are found - a diversity and multiplicity of nomenclature which led Alphonse de Candolle to infer a very ancient cultivation of the tree from the shores of the Caspian to those of the Atlantic. A certain race of pears, with white down on the under surface of their leaves, is supposed to have originated from P. nivalis, and their fruit is chiefly used in France in the manufacture of Perry (see Cider).

The alluvial valley of the Guayas, above Guayaquil, is celebrated for the richness of its vegetation, which, in fruit alone, includes cacao, coffee, coco-nuts, pine-apples, oranges, lemons, guayavas (Psidium pomiferum), guavas (Inga spectabilis), shaddocks (or grape-fruit), pomegranates, apricots, chirimoyas (Anooa Chirimolia), granadillas (Passiflora quadrangularis), paltas (Persea gratissima, otherwise known as " alligator pears "), tunas (Cactus), mangoes (Man,gifera Indica), pacays (Prosopis dulcis), aji (Chile pepper), and many others of less importance.

Plums, prunes, peaches, pears and grapes are cultivated very generally over the western half of the state (grapes in the east also), but with greatest success in the south-west; apples prosper best in the north-west.

Pears, plums; apricots, cherries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, cabbages, onions, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cucumbers are grown in considerable quantities.

They are culinary pears which are described as being typically hard and gritty and ripen slowly but are long keeping.

Place scoops of vanilla ice cream between each one then spoon the hot chocolate sauce over the top of the pears.

Heathery and creamy, pears and stewed prunes, as well as slightly more unusual seaweed notes.

Along with cereal, you can also begin introducing solid foods like applesauce, bananas, and pears.

Peel fresh fruit, such as apples, pears, and peaches, and cut into bite size pieces.

Bradford pears have fluffy white flowers in the spring and an upright, oval or pyramid shape.

Pears are obviously larger on the bottom than the top and tend to store their fat in their hips, thighs, and buttocks.

Filled with red delicious apples, pomegranates or pears, it will make your table a focal point of simple elegance.

Or make up your own salad by pairing a fruit, such as pears, with an interesting cheese (such as blue cheese), homemade candied nuts, and a simple homemade dressing.

Great examples include bananas, grapes, pears, apples, and fresh berries.

Pine nuts, gorgonzola cheese, and pears - This simple combination is rich and savory, with just a touch of sweetness from the pears.

This works better with fruit that can stand on its own, such as apples and pears.

You can expound on the theme by adding apples, grapes, and pears, depending on your color theme.

The BARF diet also includes serving fresh veggies and a limited amount of fruit, mainly apples and pears.

Other sorts offered by continental growers are the Maskat Quince, the Persian Quince, the Constantinople Quince, and the Angers; this last comes freely from seed, and is that most used for grafting Pears.

Pear and Apple (Pyrus) - Beautiful flowering trees and bushes of which there is now a bewildering number, since botanists have classed all Apples, Pears, and their allies under the one family.

Here it will be convenient to adhere to the old classification, which places Pears under Pyrus, Apples under Malus, Beams under Aria, and Mountain Ashes and Service Trees under Sorbus.

The type of pears aren't specified in the FDA report, but most pear skin is similar in thickness and texture, so it's safe to assume that the rating of 65 applies to all types of pears.

These tiny pears are full of luscious flavor.

However, pears should trend towards darker, solid colors to add balance to their overall silhouette.

For body type, you can choose triangle; hourglass; inverted triangle; rectangle or circle, making a nice change from the usual apples and pears.

The terroir imparts a flinty minerality to the wine, while the grapes add flavors of baked pears and figs.

Chardonnay from Oregon tends to be toasty with notes of pears and vanilla.

These exotic aromas don't recede in the mouth either; there's a convention of pears, papaya and honeysuckle flavors that follows with a touch of cleansing minerals.

Many fruits and nuts like apples, pears, strawberries and almonds can also make excellent wines.

For example, ripe pears would result in a pear wine that really tastes like pears and not apples.

Its light, fresh taste has been compared to fresh apples or pears.

Notes that can be detected in this wine range from apples and pears to roses, walnuts and bananas.

This vintage has a citrus-like aroma with an aftertaste of green apples, pears and pineapple.

This wine has the aroma of wildflowers and fresh pears.

It has a crisp finish with an aftertaste of green apples and pears.

This vintage has an aroma of green apples and pears with a hint of lemon.

When babies start to eat solid food, parents need to beware of foods such as raw apples or pears.

Boron is abundant in apples, pears, grapes, leafy greens, carrots, whole grains, and nuts.

From cloves and pears to greens and cabbage, you definitely have a choice in how you get your daily requirement.

Keep a bowl of whole fruit such as apples, bananas, and pears on a bowl on your table within your child's reach.

Other fruits and vegetables, like tomatoes, pineapple, pears, apples, and eggplant, all contain small amounts of the vitamin at less than 10 milligrams per 100 grams.

Pears will like A-line dresses for their ability to balance the top and bottom of the body.

Once the water is through, start adding the apples and pears.

Consider baskets filled with fresh pears, apples, and oranges.

Harry and David's pears are always a favorite and are packaged beautifully for gift giving.

Sliced, dried, oranges and pears work well too.

Pears work best for the main fruit because their shape allows them to sit up better than other fruits.

Choosing fresh fruits with edible skins, such as apples, pears, raspberries, blueberries, peaches, and apricots, is best.

Fruits include apples, pears, grapes and berries, just to name a few.

High fiber fruits include apples, plums, citrus fruits, pears and prunes.

They eventually named their pears "Royal Riviera" to set them apart from other varieties grown around the world.

In order to diversify their customer base, they came up with the idea of selling their famous pears by mail.

It features juicy Royal Riviera pears and apples, a wedge of cheddar cheese, and toasted sesame crackers.

Among their many offerings, the most popular is a monthly gift of Royal Riviera Pears, which are the company's favorite.

You will be hard pressed to find anyone who will turn down a delicious Tower of Treats or a beautiful half dozen of juicy pears.

Typical icons of the season are fruits like pumpkins, pears, apples and gourds.

Pears are relatively inexpensive and in good supply.

Remove stems from a couple dozen hard pears.

Fill a laundry tub or plastic drinks tub with cold water and float the pears in the water.

Although constantly changing, the menu has offered past delicacies such as sautéed beef tenderloin with potato galette and wild mushrooms or venison circled with wild huckleberries and accompanied by white braised pears.

Some of these include cauliflower soup with almonds and mint, skinned rotisserie chicken and a dark ginger cake with caramelized almonds and pears.

Large quantities of fruits - apples, pears, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, grapes and melons - were exported by special trains to central Europe, where the Turkestan crop was received a short time before the south European supplies ripened.

The form of the pear and of the apple respectively, although usually characteristic enough, is not by itself sufficient to distinguish them, for there are pears which cannot by form alone be distinguished from apples, and apples which cannot by superficial appearance be recognized from pears.

Other small-fruited pears, distinguished by their precocity and apple-like fruit, may be referred to P. cordate, a species found wild in western France, and in Devonshire and Cornwall.

Karl Koch considered that cultivated pears were the descendants of three species - P. persica (from which the bergamots have descended), P. elaeagrifolia and P. sinensis.

Some of the finer pears do not unite readily with the quince, and in this case double working is resorted to; that is to say, a vigorous-growing pear is first grafted on the quince, and then the choicer pear is grafted on the pear introduced as its foster parent.

Summer and autumn pears should be gathered before they are fully ripe, otherwise they will not in general keep more than a few days.

Oranges and pears are seriously damaged by insect and fungus pests.

Pears and strawberries grow side by side with oranges and granadillas, and are noted for their size and flavour.

Wines of fair quality are grown in the valley of the Sioule; walnuts, chestnuts, plums, apples and pears are principal fruits.

In some cases the branchial respiration a p pears to be insufficient, and the intestinal tract acts as an accessory breathing organ.

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When you come to Tuscumbia to see me I hope my father will have many sweet apples and juicy peaches and fine pears and delicious grapes and large water melons.

Sitting beside her in the car, I describe what I see from the window--hills and valleys and the rivers; cotton-fields and gardens in which strawberries, peaches, pears, melons, and vegetables are growing; herds of cows and horses feeding in broad meadows, and flocks of sheep on the hillside; the cities with their churches and schools, hotels and warehouses, and the occupations of the busy people.

The cultivation of strawberries and vegetables (cabbage, cauliflower, beets, beans, tomatoes, egg-plant, cucumbers, water-melons, celery, &c.) for northern markets, and of orchard fruits, especially plums, pears and prunes, has likewise proved successful.