Bartlett's Chateau des Poires
For the last few months, Deborah has had the luxury of
working at on office on Highway 9, near a plant nursery
and the Chateau des Fleurs, an old Victorian building
that is now a B & B.
A few weeks ago, Deb noticed a pear tree right
by the highway, very full of very ripe pears,
with many on the ground.
She collected some of them, and when we tasted them,
they were some of the most luscious pears either of us
had ever tasted.
A couple of weeks later, we learned that Enoch Bartlett's
family used to own the building that is now Chateau des Fleurs.
Yes, that
Enoch Bartlett, the one whose orchard was full
of pears that he could not identify as
"Williams bon Chretien" pears,
which caused that variety to become known in this country as the "Bartlett pear".
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