BARLAND PEAR is also known as Bosbury Pear, Bareland, and Bearland. It comes from a 17th century variety whose “perry” (pear cider) was prescribed for its health-giving properties. The variety may have been started at Bosbury, Herefordshire. An early-mid season perry pear with high acids and tannins. The fruit is small, turbinate or round, often fleshy where attached to fruit; no stem basin or calyx basin; calyx open. The skin is dull green or yellow with gray russet at stem and calyx ends, lenticels are numerous but inconspicuous. Flesh has some stone cells around core. Barland perry has been reputed since the seventeenth century to have medicinal value in treating kidney disorders. The variety cultivated at Vintage Virginia Apples is on Calleryana rootstock.