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longer than they are wide, almost flat & have several red streaks at the margins. The tips 

 of the stamens are deep purple. 



The fruit is small (a little smaller than that of the large Blanquet.) It grows in 

 bunches. It's pyriform, rounded at the end with the eye, which is big and level with the 

 fruit. The fruit terminates in a sharp point toward the stalk, which is long, slightly plump, 

 & is frequently curved. The fruit is twenty-one lignes high & nineteen lignes in diameter. 



Its skin is smooth, white, or a light green that's almost white; sometimes it's a 

 very light red on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is semi-crisp, white & quite delicate. 



The juice is plentiful, sweet & accented with a pleasant, almost wine-like 

 fragrance. 



The seeds are white; a few are brown. 



This pear ripens at the beginning of August. It's illustrated on PL VI. fig. B. 



XVI . PEAR TREE with very small smooth summer fruit, white to golden yellow, formed like a 

 pear-shaped pearl 



Petit BLANQUET. POIRE a la perle. (Plate VI.) 



This is a very fruitful tree & a more vigorous one than that of the large Blanquet. 

 It's grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are stout, straight, smooth and light gray. 



The buds & their stems are very big. 



The leaves are smaller than those of the long-stemmed Blanquet. They're two 

 inches two lignes long, sixteen lignes wide, and not very denticulate at their margins. 

 They fold downward but not along the central vein like those of the long-stemmed 

 Blanquet. The petioles are slender and two inches long. 



The flowers are seventeen lignes in diameter. The petals are 



