6 BULLETIN 822, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Varieties. — Bartlett, Sheldon, Howell, Flemish (Flemish Beauti/), 
and possibly others are grown. 
VERMONT. 
Distribution. — Pear growing in Vermont is unimportant commer- 
cially, but trees are rather widely distributed, especially in the Lake 
Champlain district and in Windham County in the southern part of 
the State. 
Varieties. — Bartlett, Clapp Favorite, Howell, Sheldon, Flemish 
(Flemish Beauty), Lawrence, and Winter Nelis are representative 
sorts in this State. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Distribution.— -In an earlier day, eastern Massachusetts was famous 
for its amateur pear growers. The principal pear interests of the 
State are still located in that section, especially in the eastern part 
of Middlesex County in the vicinity of Belmont, Arlington, Concord, 
and other points not far from Boston. Worcester is also a center of 
some production. 
Varieties. — The principal varieties include the Bartlett, Bosc, 
Clapp Favorite, Sheldon, Seckel, Danas Hovey, and Anjou. 
RHODE ISLAND. 
Distribution. — Pears are grown for home and local use, through- 
out most of Rhode Island, but there are no centers of large produc- 
tion. 
Varieties. — Bartlett, Sheldon, and Seckel are the more common 
sorts. 
CONNECTICUT. 
Distribution. — There are no communities which are centers of 
pear production in Connecticut, and the aggregate of the commer- 
cial interests is small. There is one large orchard in the extreme 
southwestern part of the State and small interests in other towns 
in the same general region, while trees' occur in most sections through- 
out the State. 
Varieties. — Bartlett, Anjou, Seckel, and Kieffer are the nuv-j com- 
mon sorts. 
MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 
\K\V YORK. 
Distribution. — New York is second only to California in pear pro- 
duction. The commercial interests are located principally in three 
regions. The largest one is the Lake Ontario district, which include 5 
a large portion of Niagara, Orleans. Monroe, and Oswego Counties, 
and smaller parts of Cayuga and Onondaga Counties. Pears are 
also grown in the " finger-lake " region in the central western part 
of the State and in the Hudson River valley. In the latter, the prin- 
cipal areas are in Columbia and Greene Counties, and smaller inter- 
ests are found northward in Albanv and Rensselaer Counties and 
