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THE PEAR. 
Bartlett , or William's Bonchretien. 
tlie unusual property of maturing perfectly in the house, even if 
it is picked 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 
and 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; 
