PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 133 



eight lignes long, six lignes wide, and almost flat. They're widest near the unguis. 



The fruit is very small, only eighteen lignes high by thirteen lignes in diameter. 

 It's quite round at the end with the eye, which is very prominent & large relative to the 

 volume of the fruit. The fruit generally is marked with several bumps next to the stalk, 

 which is plump and six lignes long. The fruit looks like a pearl in the shape of a pear. 



Its skin is almost white, tending slightly to yellow. It's thin, smooth, and more or 

 less transparent. 



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



The juice is slightly musky & pleasant. 



The seeds are quite plump and are covered with a light brown shell. 



This pear ripens at the beginning of August, a little before the long-stemmed 

 Blanquet. 



XVII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized very long summer fruit, somewhat green and marked with 

 yellowish brown spots. 



EPARGNE. BEAU PRESENT [Translator's note: it is said that these pears were a present 

 sent by the king of Naples to Prince Charles of Wurttemberg to remind him of a previously promised white 

 stag]. SAINT-SAMSON. (PL VII.) 



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



The shoots are thick (very thick on wild stock), straight, not very elongated, pearl 

 gray on the side in the shade with a light reddish tinge on the side in the sun and not very 

 speckled. 



The buds are small, pointed, wide at the base and not very free of the branch. The 

 stems are wide and not very prominent. 



The leaves are large. Some of them terminate in a sharp point and are four inches 

 long & two inches five lignes wide. Others are almost round, five or six lignes longer 

 than they are wide. They're very finely & not very deeply denticulate. The petiole is two 

 inches six lignes long. 



The flowers are very large. They're nineteen lignes in diameter. 



