cheſnut, and has a very firm colour; for which reaſon it is commonly uſed to mark linen with. This is done, by covering the ſeed with the cloth, and pricking out the letters with a pin; the juice filling up the punctures, ſtains the form of the letters ſo durably, that they are not to be waſhed out, only decaying with the cloth.
The mountain pear is found growing only on barren heights, or on the ſides of ſteep precipices; it grows on a tall, fluted-like ſtalk, that has the appearance of a well-wrought, fluted, ſlender pillar, full of ſtrong, ſharp prickles. The fruit is of the ſize of a pippin, its ſkin is of a beautiful crimſon colour; when this pear is cut open, it preſents an innumerable quantity of fine black ſeeds, which are covered with a juicy pulp of the ſame colour as the ſkin, its taſte is much like that of a ſtrawberry; by which name the fruit is ſometimes called.
