460 



NEW ENGLAOT) FARIMER. 



Oct. 



THE BARTLETT PEAR. 



Notwithstanding the great variety of new 

 fruits which have been introduced of late, and 

 highly extolled for their superior excellence, 

 the Baldwin Apple, Hovey's Strawberry, and 

 the Bartlett Pear are still favorites in the Bos- 

 ton market. The Bartlett pear, as it succeeds 

 well when dwarfed by being grafted on quince, 

 and thus comes into bearing much sooner than 

 when grown as a standard, is a very desirable 

 fruit. Taking into consideration its rapidity 

 of growth, hardiness, size, form, flavor, and 

 market value, the continued popularity of the 

 Bartlett pear is not at all surprising. Mr. 

 Downing says this fruit originati'd in Berkshire, 

 England, about 1770, and was there known as 

 the Williams. It was imported into this coun- 

 try in 1799 by Enoch Bartlett, Esq., of Dor- 

 chester, Mass., from whom it received its 



American name. Mr. Cole says it is liable to 

 be affected by hard winters, and that more 

 hardy native kinds are better adapted to the 

 northern part of New England. 



Fruit of large size, irregularly pyramidal. 

 Skin very thin and smooth, clear yellow, (with 

 a soft blush on the sunny side, in exposed 

 specimens,) rarely marked with a faint russet. 

 Stalk one to one and a half inches long, stout, 

 inserted in a shallow, flat cavity. Calyx open, 

 set in a very shallow, obscurely plaited basin. 

 Flesh white, and exceedingly line-grained and 

 buttery ; it is full of juice, sweet, with a highly 

 perfumed, vinous ilavor. (In damp or un- 

 favorable soils, it is sometimes slightly acid.) 

 Ripens from the last of August to the middle 

 and last of September. 



