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PEARS. 



for many years, and very extensively cultivated there and else- 

 where under the title of Bartlett pear. It obtained that name 

 from the circumstance that the oldest or original tree in that 

 vicinity stands on the property of a gentleman of that name, 

 the real title not being then known ; and it is to the intelli- 

 gence and discrimination of Robert Manning, Esq. of Salem, 

 one of the most eminent and accurate pomologists of the age, 

 that the public are indebted for an investigation and full eluci- 

 dation of the facts. In the " Short Treatise on Horticulture,'* 

 published by me, I erroneously stated this to be a native pear, 

 having been so advised by the gentleman at Boston from whom 

 I received the first tree. 



SKINLESS. Pr.cat. Mil. For. Coxe? 



Pmresanspeau, > j^^^^ j^^^^ j^j^^^ 



Fleur de GmgneSj ^ 



Flower of Guigne. 



Rousselet hatif, } ^ 



Early Rousdlet \ erroneously. 



This pear is in size about medium, being twenty- eight or 

 twenty-nine lines in height, by twenty or twenty-one in its 

 widest diameter, which is commonly about midway of the fruit; 

 the stem is rather slender, and sixteen or seventeen lines in 

 length, and rises out of a small cavity, in a somewhat lateral 

 direction ; the skin is very thin, pale green where shaded, and 

 marked with some reddish spots on the sunny side ; the flesh is 

 partially melting, of a sweet and somewhat perfumed flavour; 

 the seeds are brown, and the fruit ripens the first part of Au- 

 gust. It is variable in its form, which is generally long and 

 "sometimes shorter and broader. 



Miller makes the remark that it is called by some the Rous- 

 selet hatif or Early Rousselet, and Forsyth and Rozier also 

 mention its resemblance to that variety; but Duhamel and 

 Rozier make the difierence between them, in their general size 

 and form, to be considerable, this being the largest of the two. 



The pear, called Skinless in Boston and its vicinity, has 

 already been referred to under the head of Long stalked Blan- 



