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Bartlctt* Fruit large, irregular, knobby, obtuse-pyri- 

 form, often much more oblong than in the figure ; skin 

 very thin, smooth, clear light yellow, with a slight blush 

 in the sun, sprinkled with minute russet dots and with 



Fig. 103. BARTLETT. 



faint russet markings towards the stem ; stnlk about an 

 inch long, stout, in a shallow cavity; calyx small, partly 

 open, in a very shallow, slightly plaited basin ; flesh white, 

 exceedingly fine-grained, melting, full of agreeable, vinous 

 juice. Ripens, Georgia, through August; New York, 



