The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . often witha lip. Calyx partially closed. Segments short, erect. Flesh whitish, ajttle coarse, juicy, melting, vinous subacid. Yery good. October. Lestumieres. Doyemi6 Barry. An old variety, lately introduced and renamed. Fruit medium, oblong obovate pyriform, greenish yellow, netted andshaded and dotted with russet. Stalk short, obliquely inserted, large, open. Flesh wliitish, juicy, sweet, pleasant. Good tcvery good. October. 666 THE PEAB. Bartlett, or Williams Bonghretien. Bartlett. of all American
The fruits and fruit-trees of America; . often witha lip. Calyx partially closed. Segments short, erect. Flesh whitish, ajttle coarse, juicy, melting, vinous subacid. Yery good. October. Lestumieres. Doyemi6 Barry. An old variety, lately introduced and renamed. Fruit medium, oblong obovate pyriform, greenish yellow, netted andshaded and dotted with russet. Stalk short, obliquely inserted, large, open. Flesh wliitish, juicy, sweet, pleasant. Good tcvery good. October. 666 THE PEAB. Bartlett, or Williams Bonghretien. Bartlett. of all American Guillaume, of the French. Harnetts TMs noble Pear is, justly, one of tlie most popular of all the summeivarieties. Its size, beauty, and excellence entitle it to this estimation,apart from the fact that it bears very early, regularly, and abun-dantly. It is an English variety, originated about 1770, in Beikshire,and was afterward propagated by a London grower by the name of Wil-. Bartlett, or Williams Boiichrfitien. liams. When first introduced to this country its name was lost, andhaving been cultivated and disseminated by Enoch Bartlett, Esq., ofDorchester, near Boston, it became so universally known as the £artlett THE PEAK. 667 f *ear, that it is impossible to dispossess it now. It suits our climateImirablj, ripening better here than in England, and has the un\isualpropei-ty of matnring perfectly in the house, even if it is picked befon?it is full-grown. It has no competitor as a summer market fruitThe tree grows upright, with thrifty, yellowish brown shoots, and nar-row, folded leaves. Fruit of large size, oblong, obtuse pyi-iform. Surface very thin and smooth, clear yellow (with a soft blush on thesunny side in exposed specimens), rarely marked with faint russetStalk one to one and a half inches long, stout, inserted in a shallowcavity. Calyx ojien. Segments short, erect, set in a very shallow, ob-scur
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