Apple and Pear

The familiar street cry for apples and pears in eighteenth-century Edinburgh was – ‘Fine rosey-cheekit Carse o’ Gowries, the tap o’ the tree.’ Today, neither apples nor pears are grown commercially in the Carse of Gowrie, or anywhere else in Scotland for that matter. Yet they grow particularly well in many parts of the country, and there are many domestic orchards where old varieties are still preserved.