124 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



VII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized, turbinate summer fruit, green to lemon-colored. 



MADELEINE. CITRON des Carmes. {PI. IV.) [Translator's note: favored by the court of 

 Louis XIII and believed to have originated in a Carmelite convent.] 



This is a vigorous tree. It's grafted on wild stock & on quince trees. 



The shoots are of medium length & thickness. They're red-brown shading to 

 purple and speckled with very tiny spots. 



The buds are big, not very pointed and not very free of the branch. The stems are 

 prominent. 



The leaves are deep green, not very deeply denticulate, and come to a sharp point. 

 They're twenty-five lignes wide and three inches long; some of them are longer. Their 

 petioles are nineteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fourteen lignes in diameter. The petals are almost round and 

 concave like a spoon. 



The fruit is medium-sized, slightly oblong, twenty-five lignes long by twenty-four 

 lignes in diameter and top-shaped. The eye is bordered with creases & not very indented 

 into the fruit. The stalks are about twenty-five lignes long and are quite full. Some of 

 them have scars where small leaves were attached that had dried up & fallen off. 



Its skin is almost entirely green. It tends to be somewhat yellow when the fruit is 

 completely ripe. Sometimes there's a light reddish tinge on the side that's in the sun. 



Its flesh is white, soft, delicate and not gritty. When it's overripe it gets mealy & 

 soon turns soft. 



The juice is sweet and is enhanced by a slight and delicate tartness & a gentle 

 fragrance, which makes it pleasant. 



The seeds are black & quite full. 



It ripens in July after the Aurate. 



