84 Notices of several of the most highly-esteemed 



bore a few fruit, and the fourth produced abundantly. The pears 

 the first and second year were large and small on the same branch ; 

 but last season they were all of equal size, which is over medium. 

 The tree stands our climate exceedingly well ; not any of the 

 branches have been winter killed or blighted. The color of the fruit 

 is of a deep yellow or cinnamon color, and acquiring a bright red 

 on the side in the sun. Flesh melting, rich, and high flavored. 



Ripe the latter part of September, and will keep till the middle or 

 end of October. 



Supposed to have been raised in Flanders by M. Capiaumont of 

 Mons. 



Bartlett. Will probably prove to be Williams's Bonciiretien 

 figured in the London Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 250. t. 1(3. 



This very valuable variety, so extensively cultivated in the vicin- 

 ity of Boston, is a great favorite with the public. The farmer, as 

 well as the gardener, has too often reaped the value which has arisen 

 from having their old trees grafted with this variety ; it is almost 

 sure to give certain returns, and is more eagerly sought after in our 

 market than any other autumn pear. Very often those of large size, 

 and fully ripe, have commanded the high price of one dollar per 

 dozen. The tree is a free grower, a constant and great bearer, and 

 the fruit ranks with those of large size, often weighing ten and twelve 

 ounces each. Skin yellow, little russeted occasionally, with a 

 tinge of red on the sunny side when ripe. Flesh melting, full of 

 juice, and much resembling in taste the St. Michael ; but will not 

 keep near so long when mature ; it ripens, however, fifteen or twenty 

 days sooner. The two trees growing in the garden of E. Bartlett, 

 Esq., Roxbury, from which have originated all the trees in this vicin- 

 ity, were selected in England, in 1799, by Mr. James Carter, of 

 Boston, for Thomas Brewer, Esq., who then owned and made his 

 residence on the estate now occupied by Mr. Bartlett. I have visited 

 the trees every season for ten years past, and have always found 

 them in full bearing except once. It is very singular that no other 

 person (to my knowledge) has imported and fruited this variety in 

 the country. 



The Williams Bonchirtien originated in the garden of Mr. Wil- 

 liams, a schoolmaster in Alderraaston, in Berkshire, England, about 

 forty years since. 



[The annexed Engraving of this valuable pear is one we have copied (with the 

 permission of the library committee) from a beautiful and very correct painting 

 in the possession of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — Conds.l 



Marie Louise. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 519. Pom. Mog. 1. 122. 



This excellent variety has been exhibited at the Massachusetts 



Horticukural Society, and has been highly approved of by their 



committee. But I believe they were raised on quince stocks ; 



