One character named after this fruit travels to South Africa with the title characters to observe the transit of Venus, meeting a preternatural talking Learned English Dog along the way, and that character relates his tale to Pitt and Pliny.
One character named after this fruit travels to South Africa with the title characters to observe the transit of Venus, meeting a preternatural talking Learned English Dog along the way, and that character relates his tale to Pitt and Pliny. In addition to the Reverend from Mason and Dixon, this fruit was part of a bough that "some officious fool  broke" in Robert Browning's My Last Duchess and it "stands about the woodland ride, wearing white for Eastertide," as it "is hung with bloom along the bough," in Housman's Loveliest of Trees. This fruit titles a work in which Fiers dies after being abandoned by Yasha. In that work Lopakhin purchases the titular estate from Ranevskya. For ten points identify this fruit that names an Orchard in a Chekov play.
One character named after this fruit travels to South Africa with the title characters to observe the transit of Venus, meeting a preternatural talking Learned English Dog along the way, and that character relates his tale to Pitt and Pliny.
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