130 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Some of them are ruffled at the margins. They're three inches four lignes long & two 

 inches six lignes wide. The petioles are two inches long. 



The flowers are beautiful and wide open. They're seventeen lignes in diameter. 

 The petals are round, flat, and seven-&-a-half lignes in each dimension. 



The fruit is small, more longish than round. It's twenty-six lignes high & twenty 

 lignes in diameter. It's very pear-shaped. The eye is round, very open and even with the 

 fruit. The sections of the calyx normally stay on it for a very long time. Frequently there 

 are some bumps close to the stalk, which is an inch long, light green, quite full and a bit 

 fleshy. 



Its skin is thin, smooth, slightly yellowish white on the shaded side and has ever 

 so little of a light red color on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is crisp & a bit coarse; it leaves some residue in the mouth. 



The juice is sweet & flavorful. 



The seeds are black & medium-sized. 



This pear ripens at the end of July. It's a fine fruit in that season. Its beautiful 

 shape & the colors of its skin make it most attractive. 



XIV. PEAR TREE with small, smooth, turbinate summer fruit, partly white to golden-yellow, 

 partly pale red 



Gros BLANQUET rond. 



The large round Blanquet pear is turbinate, i.e. shaped like a top. It's twenty-two 

 lignes high & eighteen lignes in diameter. It's rounded at the top. The eye is quite big and 

 not very indented into the fruit. The end of the fruit near the stalk forms a blunt point 

 whose tip often is accented with several bumps. The stalk is thick and five lignes long. 



