$22 THE PEAR. 
Bartlett, or William's Bonchretien. 
_ the unusual property of maturing perfectly in the house, even if 
“ it is pickéd before it is full grown. It has no competitor as a 
“summer market fruit. The tree grows upright, with thrifty, 
yellowish-brown shoots, and narrow, folded leaves. 
Fruit of large ‘size, irregularly pyramidal. Skin very thin 
aod smooth, clear yellow, (with a soft blush on the sunny side, 
in exposed specimens,) rarely marked with 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 fine-grained’ and buttery i 
