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Its flesh is semi-buttery, slightly yellowish-white, and not very delicate. 



The juice has a pleasant, enhanced, & musky flavor. 



The seeds are full & large in proportion to the fruit. Their coverings are almost 

 white. 



This pear ripens at the beginning of July & is valued because of its early 

 appearance. Dry soil & open ground are appropriate for it. 



II. PEAR TREE with small turbinate rough ash-gray to yellowish summer fruit. 



MUSCAT ROYAL. [Tanslator's note: an old French pear grown in the kitchen gardens of 

 Versailles. Planted by La Qintinye for Louis XIV.] 



The royal musk pear is a small pear shaped like a top. It comes to a point at the 

 stalk and is very rounded at its top where its eye is flush with the fruit. It's nineteen lignes 

 long & the same in diameter. The stalk is quite slender and fifteen lignes long. 



Its skin is a bit rough & is a gray color almost like that of the fennel apple. 



Its flesh is white, semi-buttery & a little coarse. 



The seeds are big & black. 



It ripens at the beginning of September. 



III. PEAR TREE with medium-sized smooth pyriform green to golden yellow summertime fruit. 

 MUSCAT Robert. POIRE a la Reine. POIRE d'Ambre. (PL II) 



This tree grows vigorously as a graft on wild stock but only moderately when 

 grafted on the quince tree. 



The shoots are medium-sized, straight, not very elongated, yellow green on the 

 shaded side and a golden color on the side 



