. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THE PEAR. 42i shaped (i. e. oblate, inclining to conic,) as Gansel's Berga- mot. 4th. Pyramidal, the lines extending upward from the broad base by right lines or nearly so, as Delies d'Hardenpont of With regard to the texture of the flesh; buttery, as the Doyenne and Bartlett; crisp, as the Summer Bonchretien; juicy, as t
. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THE PEAR. 42i shaped (i. e. oblate, inclining to conic,) as Gansel's Berga- mot. 4th. Pyramidal, the lines extending upward from the broad base by right lines or nearly so, as Delies d'Hardenpont of With regard to the texture of the flesh; buttery, as the Doyenne and Bartlett; crisp, as the Summer Bonchretien; juicy, as thei» Napoleon, and St. Germain; as, in apples, the blossom end is called the eye, the remains 'of the blossom, the calyx, and the hollow in which it is placed, the hadn. We have placed the pears in three classes nearly correspond- ing to the grades of quality adopted by the American Pomologi- cal Congress, of " best," " very good," and " good;" but the third class, although containing the " good," may be considered nearlj equivalent to a rejected list. f CLASS I. Ihis class contains those which are weir known to be oi unexceptionable quality, and have been found to thrive in almost every situation suited to the cultivation of the pear. Bartlett, or Williams's Bonchrbtibn. Thomp. Man. Bartlett, of all Americcm gqtrdens. De la Vault. Williams's Bonchretien. Thomp. lAnd. Clement Doyenne. Poire Guillaume, of the French. This noble pear is, justly, one of the most popular of alF the summer varieties. Its size, beauty, and excellence, entitle it to this estimation, apart from the fact* that it bears very early, re- gularly, and abundantly; It is an English variety, originated about 1770, in Berkshire, and was afterwards propagated by a London grower by the name of Williams. When first intro- duced to this country its name was lost, and having been culti- vated and disseminated by Enoch Bartlett, Esq., of Dorchester, near Boston, it became so u
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