The Bartlett pear was discovered by an English schoolmaster named Mr. Stair in 1765. Not too long after that, it was first planted in the United States at the Thomas Brewer Estate in Massachusetts. When Enoch Bartlett bought the estate, he decided to introduce the fruit under his own name.
Stemilt grows Bartlett in Washington State’s famous river valleys. This pear is known as the Williams pear in other parts of the world.
