A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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PEA 436 PEA
bust, and rather peculiar, from the turning
or twisting of its branches. Color
arying from light to dark yellow,
blended and dotted with brown. Skin
thick. Stalk an inch or more in length,
bold and curved. Eye set in a shallow
basin. Flesh yellowish white, rich and
buttery. On trees in vigorous growth
and heavy land the fruit is sometimes
Fig. 114.—(P. 434.)
rather coarse-grained, and slightly as-
Uingent." Rural Reg.
Babtlett Pear, of the Americans.—
William's Bonchretien, of the English.
(Fig. 118.) " This truly admirable
variety ia of British origin, first
brought into notice by one Williams,
whose name it bears. Many years ago,
(1799, according to Downing,) it was
imported into Massachusetts by Mr.
Enoch Bartlett, from whose grounds,
near Boston, it was widely disseminated
; hence the name by which it is
known among us. The habit of the
tree is thrifty and erect, the shoots
strong and vigorous. The fruit is large,
quite irregular in outline, and varying
considerably in different specimens.
Skin smooth, yellow, with a slight
blush on those which have ripened in
the sun, on others entirely destitute of