Pearmain

Firstly, its unusual shape - it is a very tall apple, a shape which is characteristic of 'pearmain' apples such as Adams Pearmain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Click on its mouth to get it to open then pop the pearmain in. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Look in bin/trash can, collect pearmain (1 coin here). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now if she'd er tuk thim old blue pearmain trees, I wouldn't have said a word. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

As varieties of the Apple, mention is made in documents of the twelfth century, of the pearmain, and the costard, from the latter of which has come the word costardmonger, as at first a dealer in this fruit, and now applied to our costermonger. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

He left a hollow limb on the old red pearmain apple-tree, because when he came to cut it there was a pair of bluebirds twittering around, frantic with anxiety. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Peter and Sally were under the big pearmain apple tree at the foot of the orchard, Shelley and a half dozen beaus were everywhere. ❋ Unknown (1913)

On the further side of the house, Dr. Ripley had planted an apple orchard, which included some rare varieties, especially the blue pearmain, a dark-red autumn apple with a purple bloom upon it like the bloom upon the rye. ❋ Stearns, Frank P (1906)

Molly set the barrel up on end, and that took the boy out of the reach of mischief, so he retired from view and peeped through a crack as he ate his fifth pearmain, regardless of consequences. ❋ Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 (1902)

Peter and Sally were under the big pearmain apple tree at the foot of the orchard, ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)

From a red winter pearmain the singer poured out his own heart in song, and then reproduced the love ecstasy of every other bird of the orchard. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)

Late in November he found a blue-pearmain tree growing within the edge of a swamp, almost as good as wild. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

If I am sharp-set, for I do not refuse the blue-pearmain, I fill my pockets on each side; and as ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

Wise librarians have, with a smile, regretted the paucity of proper material; literary men have predicted rather a thin volume; in short, the general opinion of men is condensed in the sly question of a peddler who comes to our door, summer and winter, his stock varying with the season: sage-cheese and home-made socks, suspenders and cheap note-paper, early-rose potatoes and the solid pearmain. ❋ Kate Sanborn (1878)

The third, the frost pinched our fingers and nipped the fair cheeks of our russets and pearmain that were left on the sideboard. ❋ Unknown (1869)