PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 127 



X. PEAR TREE with small, smooth, turbinate summer fruit, green to somewhat golden-yellow on 

 one side and brilliant rich red on the other. 



Woodland HASTIVEAU. 



This is a small top-shaped pear, twenty lignes high by eighteen lignes in diameter. 

 The eye is quite big and is almost level with the fruit. The stalk is slender and fourteen 

 lignes long. 



Its skin is smooth, quite thin, yellowish green on the shaded side and a vivid & 

 striking deep red on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is white, tending somewhat to green. It's dry & leaves some residue in the 

 mouth. 



The juice is acrid & a little tart. 



The seeds are black. 



It ripens about the tenth of August. It's a fruit that's better to look at than to taste, 

 especially at this time when there's lots of other delicious fruit around. 



XI. PEAR TREE with medium-sized, very long, shiny summer fruit, partly green to golden-yellow, 

 partly somewhat red. 



CUISSE-MADAME. (PL V.) 



This is a vigorous tree when grafted on wild stock. It does poorly on quince trees. 

 It sets fruit with difficulty. 



The shoots are reddish, quite slender, long and straight. Some are light brown. 



The buds are small, flat, and are pressed against the branch. Their stems are thick. 



The leaves are medium-sized and somewhat lozenge-shaped. They're two inches 

 ten lignes long, two inches three lignes wide and slightly & very lightly denticulate. The 

 midrib bends slightly downward. The petiole is nineteen lignes long. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter; the petals are rounded. This tree has a 

 lot flowers with six & with eight petals. 



