Excerpt from Maturity Standards for Harvesting Bartlett Pears for Eastern Shipment Fruit from different orchards showed certain variations, but the following tables (1 to 13 inclusive), which summarize the tests con ducted in certain of the more important districts will serve to give a very good idea of how the fruit ripened. Various comments and notes on the color, firmness, and quality of the fruit accompany each table. Figure 1 shows graphically the general trend of softening of Bartlett pears in certain districts during 1928, while figure 2 indi cates the color and shows the pressure of all samples collected after the beginning of the 1928 commercial picking season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.