Show o O. O v Q O 0 Ov o oc n BARTLETT PEAR IS ISNOW ISNOW NOW NOV THE STANDARD The Bartlett was was wal a good Christian pear ear before it came to America In fact act fact that was Us its original name but butIn butin In n I France rance however non lion Chretien The Bartlett pear Is II now th the standard of the universally used fruit for or eating out of hand but especially line fine for tor cull culinary ary purposes purposes and used from rom a market standpoint almost to the he exclusion of other varieties California California Cali Call fornia Is II a great producing center and cans ans for tor the world Its Us supply of Bartletta Bart Bart- letta found In every big hotel around the globe The Bartlett or as It was then known the non lion Chretien girdled 1 the United States much as ns they now I Ilay lay transcontinental telegraph and telephone telephone tel tel- 1 ephone cables It started at each coast and met ruet somewhere In the middle mid ridd die dle states The original lion Don Chretien Clire tiers tien pears plarl originals of the Bartletts Da came In with the New England Englund col cot colonists and now flourish over the eastern eastern east east- ern states and str stretch westward About the same time Ume the Spanish friars In Mexico were growing lion Bon on Chretien Chretten pears they moved up Into California where they became become a popular popular pop pop- ular and staple diet In that hint wonder of growing fruit communities and moved Y enst eastward rd so that Bartlett pears moved the width of ot the country Further south other pears pearl to some extent supplant the tha Bartlett I being I better adapted to the climate but forthe forthe for forthe the eastern easter western and middle I states It is the pear par excellence It became becam the parent of other pears which have attained favor notably the Kieffer Kleffer which runs the Bartlett second In pop popular lar favor this pear beIng beIng being be be- ing originated In a cross between the Bartlett and the sand pear by Peter Kieffer of Pennsylvania shaped Is When th the term pear used It refers to the typical contour c of ot the Bartlett or old Bon Don Chretien pear which Is more regular In outline and quite different from other types of pear which I are re more angular longer necked or rounder The Bartlett Bartlett Bart Dart lett Is surpassed In flavor for tor eating out of hand by some other varieties connoisseurs claim but for general all nil around usefulness It U Is still sUU the oldest and the most popular |