128 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The fruit is medium-sized, very elongated and narrow near the stalk where there 

 almost always are some creases. It's two inches six lignes long & twenty-two lignes in 

 diameter. The eye is small & almost flush with the fruit. The stalk is fifteen lignes long. 

 It's somewhat fleshy next to the fruit & is the same color as the skin. The fruit is loosely 

 attached to the tree and will fall off with the slightest breeze. 



Its skin is thin & glossy all over. It's yellowish green on the shaded side & red- 

 brown, almost the same color as the Rousselet, on the sun side. 



Its flesh is semi-buttery and slightly coarse. 



The juice is sweet, slightly musky, & plentiful. 



The seeds often are very small. 



This pear ripens at the end of July. In dry soil it's small & slightly gourd-shaped. 

 It's twenty to twenty-two lignes high & about fifteen or sixteen lignes in diameter. The 

 entire enlarged part is quite round, both at the middle as well as the end where the eye is 

 flush with the fruit. It decreases in size quite abruptly toward the other end where it 

 elongates to a point. The stalk, which is fleshy for a third of its length, just seems to be an 

 extension of the fruit. 



XII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized, very long autumnal fruit, yellow on one side and a rich & 

 beautiful red on the other. 



BELLISSIME d'Automne. VERMILLON. (PL XIX. Fig I.) 



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



The shoots are very long, brown, reddish, bordering on deep purple, and spotted. 

 There is a small bend at each node. 



The buds are medium-sized, somewhat flattened, sharp, and free of the branch. 

 Their stems are prominent. 



The leaves are elliptical. They terminate in almost a similar point at both ends. 

 They're flat, very finely 



