I don’t see anything in the picture which would eliminate Bartlett at that stage of development. Did you pick them fully ripe? Did you thin the fruit if there were a lot? Did the tree have enough water and sunshine?

in my MI ... barlett fall from the tree rock hard... and unripe... and we used to leave them on a picnic table in deep fall to ripen .... and i think they tasted better after a freeze .. [small suburban lot.. ans i presume the dog kept the tree rats away ...]

the ultimate hard fruit for storage in the root cellar.. along with the fall apples ...

ken

Thank you both. Last year we had about a dozen pears on the whole tree. This year, probably several hundred--pretty small yet as typically they aren't ready til around late August/ into September. Plenty of sunshine, water. Haven't thinned out from year to year. Noticed this year our Willow tree has expanded pushing right next to the Pear tree. Probably need to get that one pruned. Always wait til ripe. With our very old Bartlett that died, the pears would just 'thunk' off the tree when fully ripe. If we didn't get to them before the wasps & critters did...... Those were the best pears I ever had in my life. Tree was probably over 40 years old.