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VIII. PEAR TREE with small smooth pyriform lemon colored early fruit. 



AM1RE JOANNET. [Translator's note: the fruit was named Joannet because it ripens 

 around St. John's day (June 24).] 



This pear tree is grafted on wild stock & on quince trees. 



The shoots are long, strong, straight, thick and spotted. The thicker part is entirely 

 green. The middle is green in the shade and reddish on the side in the sun. The tip is 

 reddish dark brown bordering on purple. 



The buds are very small, flat, stuck to & sort of squashed against the branch. 

 Their stems are broad & are not very prominent. 



The leaves are flat and somewhat lanceolate. They're two inches nine lignes long, 

 twenty lignes wide and are very lightly denticulate. The petiole is fifteen to twenty lignes 

 long. 



The flowers are large, beautiful, and very open. They're eighteen lignes in 

 diameter. The petals are flat, almost oval and slightly pointed. The tips of the stamens are 

 bright purple. 



The fruit is small and quite uniformly pyriform in shape. It's twenty-three lignes 

 high & fifteen lignes in diameter. The eye is flush with the fruit, which is very rounded at 

 that end. The size of the fruit diminishes uniformly toward the stalk, which is fifteen to 

 twenty lignes long, of average thickness, & inserts at the tip of the fruit which is 

 somewhat blunt. 



Its skin is very smooth and an extremely light lemon yellow on the shaded side. 

 The sun side sometimes takes on a subtle reddish tinge. More often it's a lesser pale 

 yellow. 



Its flesh is white & tender. 



The juice is not very flavorful. It's quite plentiful as long as the fruit is not 

 overripe. 



The seeds are small & brown and are very pointed. 



This fruit ripens around the end of June. Usually it's earlier than the small musk 

 pear, to which it's preferable because of its size. 



