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CLASS I. — Worthy Oeneral Cultivation. 

 Bartlett. 



William's Bon Chretien, | William's, 

 Foire Guilliaunie. 



An English variety originated about 1770. Now extensively 

 grown, and too well known to really need description. The trees 

 are vigorous, and early productive of fair handsome fruit, either on 

 pear or quince root. 



Fruity large, ovate, obtuse pyriform ; surface somewhat uneven • 

 color, clear light yellow, tinged with blush in sun when ripe, russet 

 around the stem, and minute russet dots over the whole ; stem, short 

 thick: cabjx, medium, partly open ; hann, shallow, furrowed; core 

 medium ; seeds, broad ovate ; Jiesh, vellowish white, melting, juicy' 

 vmous. Season, middle August to middle September. • 



