126 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



IX. PEAR TREE with very small, flattened turbinate smooth yellow summer fruit. 

 HASTIVEAU. 



This pear tree looks a lot like that of the small musk pear. It's very fruitful. It's 

 grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are reddish & quite strong. 



The buds & their stems are very large. 



The leaves are small, round, very light green, twenty-six lignes long, twenty-one 

 lignes wide, and not very deeply denticulate. The midrib curves downward in an arc & 

 forms a fold at each end of the leaf. The petiole is eight lignes long. 



The flowers are eighteen lignes in diameter and very open. The petals are almost 

 oval, very slightly concave spoonlike, and ruffled & wrinkled at the edges. 



The fruit is very small and shaped like a flattened top. It's fourteen lignes high & 

 fifteen lignes in diameter. The eye is almost always oval. It's flattened and not very 

 prominent even though there's almost no indentation at all around it, only a few small 

 creases that make this portion look sort of puckered. The stalk is about eighteen lignes 

 long. It's slender, yellow on one side and a beautiful red on the other. It has marks where 

 some small leaves that had been attached have died. 



Its skin is very smooth, light yellow everywhere except for the side in the sun 

 where there are several small bright red spots. 



Its flesh is slightly yellowish, semi-buttery, quite coarse and leaves some residue 

 in the mouth. It turns mealy when extremely ripe. 



The juice has little flavor even though it's musky. 



The seeds are big & black. 



This is a very pretty pear but only average in quality. It ripens about mid-July. 



