90 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



& smooth. They're usually reddish near the tip on the side toward the sun & green on the 

 opposite side. 



The buds are of average size & are not far apart from one another, but their stems 

 are very thick & prominent. 



The flowers are an inch in diameter. The petals are oval. Two pedicels often are 

 fused together along their whole, or almost their whole length, which makes them look 

 very much like they were twin flowers. 



The leaves are large, wide, & a shiny dark green. Those on the shoots are up to 

 five inches three lignes long by two inches nine lignes wide. The ones on the fruiting 

 branches are much smaller. The margins are denticulate & bidenticulate. The 

 denticulation is large, uniform, quite deep, and rounded. The stalk is thick and about six 

 or seven lignes long. 



The fruit is big, round, and slightly flattened at both ends. It's eighteen lignes in 

 diameter by sixteen lignes high. The stalk, of average thickness, inserts into the center of 

 a quite deep cavity. A not very discernible groove divides the fruit lengthwise. The fruit 

 is flatter on the side with the groove, so the diameter measured from that side is only 

 sixteen lignes. The larger fruits are about a ligne more in each dimension. If the weather 

 is rainy when the fruit is ripening, it will split open & it improves as a result. 



Its skin adheres to the flesh. It's green, delicate, marked with gray spots & struck 

 with red on the side facing the sun. It's covered with a very light bloom. 



Its flesh is yellowish green, very fine, tender & delicate without being mushy. 



The juice is plentiful, sweet, & has an excellent flavor. 



The pit clings to the flesh along its ridge & at a two or three ligne spot on each of 

 its flat sides. 



