SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

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Only in England
Actual names of ancient varieties of fruit grown in England, but struggling
to survive:
• Hens’ Turds apple — said to produce an excellent cider, also good for
cooking and jelly
• Bloody Bastard pear — a red-fleshed pear verging on extinction
• Shit Smock plum — a small green fruit — “The name indicates the fate
of the garments of young fellows who over-indulged.”
• Gilliflower of Gloucester — a dessert apple
• Arlingham Schoolboys — an apple named after a village in Gloucester