Green Horse is a large tree of characteristic stiff appearance. The crotches are narrow-angled and the numerous large, heavy,upright limbs terminate in small stiff branches. Its cropping is regular and fairly good. This variety is found scattered in orchards throughout north and north-west Gloucestershire. Fruit is usually oblate, sometimes slightly turbinate, 36-61 mm. long, 45-60 mm. diameter. Stem 14-44 mm. Stem basin usually small, narrow, fairly deep, sometimes absent. Eye basin often well defined. Calyx usually upright; sepals jointed, sometimes free, sometimes fleshy at base, often pubescent; stamens attached at base of sepals. Skin green or yellowish gren, sometimes with a slight orange flush; russet around stem, more around eye, spreading to cheek; lenticels usually almost white, often conspicuous on russet; scab often present. Core generally with an axial sac, sometimes well defined, sometimes filled; seeds black. Flesh with a ring of stone cells around the core.
Leaf stalk 25-50 mm. Blade 43-60 mm. long, 35-54 mm. wide; elliptical; tip obtuse, rarely acuminate; base cordate, occasionally rounded inclined to cordate; marginal serrations strongly pronounced.
Harvest 2nd to 4th week of October. Milling up to three weeks after harvest. Juice analysis - specific gravity 1050, acidity 0.75, tannin 0.11. Vintage quality good, high in acid, low in tannin.
-- Luckwill and Pollard, Perry Pears, 1963.