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Bartlett Pear 
Bummer. .1 gohlcn-colorcd pear, irith a red check 
on most specimens. Bartleli is extra good for canning 
Bartlett mellows and is excellent for eating very early in the 
fall, yet when picked a week before it is ripe, and properly 
stored, will keep till late. Flavor delicious and musky; flesh 
buttery, rich and juicy. One of the finest pears that grows to 
cat raw. A mingling of the flavor of Bartlett pear and quince 
gives about tlie lincst taste of any food this world’s folks have. 
Bartlett trees bear early, produce enormous crops, and are not 
nearly so subject to damage by insects and disease as some other 
sorts. The trees do especially well with high culture. 
Bartlett pears always sell on the market oven when other 
sorts are not in great demand. The fruit is so handsome and 
apjiealing that it pays to pack it in fancy containers. Hampers 
or bushel boxes arc best adapted. The fruit ought to bo care¬ 
fully sorted and graded, wrapped in tissue paper, and arranged 
in the container in practically the same way that you pack 
apples. Pears arc sometimes packed in peach carriers and sell 
to good advantage. Plain fruit can bo sold without wrapping, 
in small hampers or boxes. 
One or two Bartlett i)ear trees in the city yard will furnish a 
considerable amount of fruit: a half dozen will supj)ly the family 
with fresh fruit and a surplus for preserving. 
PEAR TREE PRICES (Except Kieffer) 
Each 10 100 
2 to 3 ft.$0 "JO S 5 00 S JO 00 
3 to 4 ft. 90 7 00 CO 00 
4 to 5 ft. 1 2.> 10 00 80 00 
5 to G ft. 1 50 12 00 100 00 
Parcel I’ost size (2 to 3 ft.), 00c each prepaid. 
