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Fig. 114.— (P. 434.) 



bust, and rather peculiar, from the turn- 

 ing or twisting of its branches. Color 

 ▼arying 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- 

 Uingent." — Rural Reg. 



Babtlett Pear, of the Americans. — 

 William's Bonchretien, of the Eng- 

 lish. (Fig. 118.) " This truly admir- 

 able variety ia 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 



