Behind the villas rise the gardens, terraces upon terraces of roses, laurels, lemons, Japanese medlars, and trees and shrubs of all sorts, with a stone pine or a cypress here and there, dark green against the faint blue sky.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
The child sat down among the gourds and medlars on the muddy floor and hid his face against his knees.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton
"If you come to people of quality," said Sancho, "there's nobody more so than my master; but the calling he follows does not allow of larders or store-rooms; we lay ourselves down in the middle of a meadow, and fill ourselves with acorns or medlars."
"The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete"
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra