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Its skin is yellowish-white in the shade and has a slight touch of red on the side in 

 the sun. 



Its flesh is a little less delicate than that of the long-stemmed Blanquet. 



The juice has some fragrance & is more pleasant than that of the large Blanquet. 



The fruit ripens around the end of July. Sometimes it looks a little like the Bezy 

 de 1'Echasserie. 



The leaves are round, smooth & are not denticulate. They're twenty-seven lignes 

 long and twenty-one wide. 



The shoots are slender & are almost similar to those of the Cuisse-Madame pear 

 tree. 



XV. PEAR TREE with small, smooth, white pyhform sharply pointed summer fruit. 

 BLANQUET a longue queue. 



This is a vigorous pear tree when grafted on wild stock. It's of average strength 

 when grafted on the quince tree. 



The shoots are thick, straight and pearl gray on the side in the shade. On the sunlit 

 side & at the tip of the shoot they're red-brown tending a bit to purple. They're speckled 

 with very small spots. When this pear tree is grafted on the quince its shoots usually are 

 pretty long & quite slender. 



The buds are medium-sized and lie flat against the branch. The ones at the tip of 

 the shoot are very small. Their stems are narrow & not very full. 



The leaves are two inches wide & two inches nine lignes long. They're finely but 

 not very uniformly nor deeply denticulate on the margins. Some of the leaves are almost 

 oval. Most of them fold along the central vein. The petiole is eighteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fourteen lignes in diameter. The petals are 



