Cultural references

Pears grow in the sublime orchard of Alcinous, in Odyssey vii: Therein grow trees, tall and luxuriant, pears and pomegranates and appletrees with their bright fruit, and sweet figs, and luxuriant olives. Of these the fruit perishes not nor fails in winter or in summer, but lasts throughout the year.A Partridge in a Pear Tree is the first gift in The Twelve Days of Christmas cumulative song, this verse is repeated twelve times in the song.