No. 22165 Bartlett Pear from The Pears of New York. (1921)
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Enoch Bartlett (1779–1860) was a merchant and farmer from Dorchester, Massachusetts, who owned what had been Thomas Brewer’s farm in Roxbury. This farm had a field of pear trees, one of which had particularly fine fruit. Because it was thought to be a seedling tree, it became known by the name “Bartlett pear”, but in 1828 a new batch of pear trees arrived from England, and it was realised that the Bartlett pear was the same as the Williams pear. By this time the name “Bartlett pear” had stuck, and is still the commonest name for this type of pear in Canada and the United States.
Source: Francis Vincent, Vincent’s Semi-Annual United States Register…. 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 685.
Enoch Bartlett, well known horticulturalist, died at his home in Roxbury near Boston, Massachusetts, aged eighty one. The Bartlett Pear was originally known in England as the Stair Pear after a schoolmaster who grew it in the 1770s and then the Williams Pear after the grower who spread it across England and the United States. Unknowingly, Bartlett named the fruit after himself when he acquired a small orchard of them and this was the name that stuck. (By John Osborne)