164 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



it's approximately the same size as the gean cherry tree. It puts out fewer branches but 

 nourishes them better & supports them about as well. 



The shoots are stout and not very lengthy. The bark is light brown. 



The buds are big & well nourished. The vegetative ones are slightly blunt. The 

 stems are wide & prominent. 



The flowers open only a little. The petals are six lignes long, five lignes wide, and 

 almost round at the tip. The pedicel, barely an inch long when the flower begins to open, 

 sometimes gets to be three inches long by the time it fades. The stamens are very uneven 

 in length. The calyx & pedicel are bright green. Up to six flowers emerge from the same 

 bud. 



The leaves are large, about four inches long by twenty-four or twenty-six lignes. 

 The large ones are less wide near the stalk than they are at the other end. The small & 

 medium leaves are widest at about their midpoint. They are uniformly and quite finely 

 denticulated & bidenticulated. They're a lighter green & have more veins than those of 

 the gean cherry tree. The slender stalk, eighteen to twenty-four lignes long, & most of the 

 midrib, are tinged red. The leaves close up along the central vein or are reflexed inward at 

 the margins & are more pendent than those of the gean cherry tree. 



The fruit is large, convex or swollen on one side. On the other it's flattened & 

 divided by quite a deep groove that extends along its entire length from the tip to the 

 stalk. When looked at from that side it appears square because it's practically the same 

 width at the top as it is at the bottom. It's ten-&-a-half lignes high, ten-&-a-half lignes 

 across its large diameter, & nine lignes at its small diameter. The stalk is slender, fifteen 

 lignes to three inches long, and set into quite a wide & not very deeply indented recess. 



