Arlingham Squash (synonyms: Squash Pear, Old Squash, Old Taynton Squash) - This variety makes a medium size tree with rather slender, upright limbs, and a thin open branch system. Very susceptible to attach by canker which causes much die-back of the older branchers and stimulates the growth of numerous young shoots. In spite of this handicap the cropping is good. Common in southwest Gloucestershire, particularly near the Severn, with scattered trees elswhere in the county. Often confused with Taynton Squash. Possibly the Green Squash Pear of Evelyn. Flowering period: late mid-season. Fruit: broadly turbinate, approaching round, 43-56 mm. long, 45-57 mm. diameter. Stem 10-20 mm. thick, often lumby, usually swollen at union with spur. Stem basin usually small and slight, sometimes absent. Eye basin usually slight, though sometimes well defined, wide and shallow. Calyx upright, rarely reflexed; sepals tubular or joined; stamens attached at base of sepals, sometimes red. Skin light green, sometimes with a slight red, often blotchy flush; russet spreading to cheek; lenticels small, sometimes conspicuous, red on flush; scab slight. Core has a well defined axial sac, rarely filled. Flesh sometimes tinged yellow, with stone cells around core. Harvest 1st to 3rd week of October. Milled up to 5 days after harvest. The fruits rot quidkly from the centre, though remaining sound in external appearance. Juice sp. gr. 1052; acidity 0.40; tannin 0.14. Produces a medium acid, low to medium tannin perry; pleasant and full bodied. -- Luckwill and Pollard, 1963.