122 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Its stalk, quite well sustained though very slender, is twenty-one lignes long. Its very 

 large eye is set flush with the fruit without any indentation around it. It's surrounded by 

 several small, oblong & not very prominent bumps. 



Its skin is quite smooth, green, somewhat yellowish on the shaded side and red 

 mixed with tan on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is slightly greenish, semi-buttery, coarse, & leaves some residue in the 

 mouth. 



The juice, though slightly musky, is not very flavorful. 



The seeds are very small & are almost white. 



The fruit ripens around the twentieth of July. 



V. PEAR TREE with small, gourd-shaped summer fruit, yellow on one side to pale red on the 

 other, 



AURATE. (PL III.) 



This tree is vigorous when grafted on wild stock; on the quince tree it has only 

 average strength. 



The shoots are slender & small (especially on the quince tree). They're straight, 

 red on the side in the sun, reddish-green on the shaded side and flecked with very tiny 

 spots. 



The buds are long, pointed, very free of the branch and are attached to prominent 

 stems. 



The leaves are round, flat, two inches five lignes long and twenty-one lignes wide 

 (some are larger). They're very finely & not very deeply denticulate. The petiole is 

 sixteen to twenty lignes long. 



The flowers are thirteen lignes in diameter. The petals are racket-shaped, almost 

 flat or very slightly concave. 



The fruit is small, fifteen lignes high and the same in diameter. Sometimes its 

 shape approximates that of a gourd and sometimes it's almost top-shaped. 



