Archive image from page 100 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhar00hedr Year: 1922 BARTLETT BELLE LUCRATIVE 77 variety is fruitfulness—barring frosts or freezes the trees bear full crops jear after 3'ear. The trees are vigorous, attain large size, bear young, live long, and are easily managed in the orchard. The pears are large, handsome, of good but not of the best quality, and keep and ship remarkably well. Bartlett is not without serious faults, however: the trees are not above the average in resistance to blight; they are not as hardy as those o
Archive image from page 100 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhar00hedr Year: 1922 BARTLETT BELLE LUCRATIVE 77 variety is fruitfulness—barring frosts or freezes the trees bear full crops jear after 3'ear. The trees are vigorous, attain large size, bear young, live long, and are easily managed in the orchard. The pears are large, handsome, of good but not of the best quality, and keep and ship remarkably well. Bartlett is not without serious faults, however: the trees are not above the average in resistance to blight; they are not as hardy as those of some other varieties; and more than those of any other standard variety the blossoms require cross- fertilization. The fruits are satisfactory in all characters excepting quality. They lack the rich, perfumed flavor of Seckel on one hand, or the piquant, vinous taste of Winter Nelis 70. Bartlett. (XV2) on the other. But they are above the average in quality, and since no other variety is so easily grown, nor so reliable in the markets, Bartlett promises long to hold its supremacy for home and commercial plantations. It is the most desired of all pears by the canning trade. This pear was found as a wilding by a Mr. Stair, a schoolmaster at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England. It was first introduced to this country in 1797 or 1799 under the name of Williams' Bon Chretien, by which name it is known both in England and France. In 1817 Enoch Bartlett, Dorchester, Massachusetts, al- lowed the pear to go out under his own name. Henceforth it became known in America ex- clusively as Bartlett. Tree medium in size, with age becoming tall and pyriform, upright ; branches stocky, smooth, reddish- brown with few lenticels. Leaves 2 inches long, 1 inches wide, oval, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin tipped with small dark red glands, finely serrate ; petiole 1 inches long. Flowers showy, 114 inches across, in dense averaging 7 buds in a cluster. Fruit matures in September; l
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