Archive image from page 431 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 PEA 436 —•— PEA Fig. 114.—(P. 434.) bust, and rather peculiar, from the turn- ing or twisting of its branches. Color yarying from light to dark yellow, blended and dotted with brown. Skin thick. Stalk an inch or more in length, bold and curved. Eye set in a shallow basin. Flesh yellowish white, rich and buttery. On trees in vigorous growth and heavy land the fruit is sometimes rather coarse-grained, and slightly as- tringent.'—Rural Reg. Bartlett Pear, of th
Archive image from page 431 of A dictionary of modern gardening. A dictionary of modern gardening . dictionaryofmode01john Year: 1847 PEA 436 —•— PEA Fig. 114.—(P. 434.) bust, and rather peculiar, from the turn- ing or twisting of its branches. Color yarying from light to dark yellow, blended and dotted with brown. Skin thick. Stalk an inch or more in length, bold and curved. Eye set in a shallow basin. Flesh yellowish white, rich and buttery. On trees in vigorous growth and heavy land the fruit is sometimes rather coarse-grained, and slightly as- tringent.'—Rural Reg. Bartlett Pear, of the Americans.— William's Bonchretien, of the Eng- lish. (Fig. US.) 'This truly admir- able variety is of British. origin, first brought into notice by one Williams, whose name it bears. Many years ago, (1799, according to Downing,) it was imported into Massachusetts by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, from whose grounds, near Boston, it was widely dissemi- nated ; hence the name by which it is known among us. The habit of the tree is thrifty and erect, the shoots strong and vigorous. The fruit is large, quite irregular in outline, and varying considerably in different specimens. Skin smooth, yellow, with a slight blush on those which have ripened in the sun, on others entirely destitute of
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