136 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



eleven lignes long and quite full though not thick, attaches to the fruit in the center of a 

 very small cavity. 



Its skin is smooth, shiny, yellow on the shaded side and bright red on the side in 

 the sun. 



Its flesh is semi-crisp and often gritty. 



The juice has an enhanced flavor like roses. 



The seeds are pale yellow or whitish. 



This fruit ripens at the end of July & the beginning of August. 



XX. PEAR TREE with small, almost blunt pyriform summer fruit, lemon yellow on one side, deep 

 red on the other. 



PARFUM d'Aout. 



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



The shoots are smooth, straight, short, sometimes a bit mealy and light reddish on 

 the side in the shade. On the side in the sun a thin pearl-gray epidermis covers a red-light 

 brown color that approaches purple. The shoots are not very spotted & look a little like 

 the shoots on cherry trees. 



The buds are rounded, thick, short, and come to a point. They're very free of the 

 branch and are attached to flat stems. 



The leaves are slightly oblong. Their margins are barely & very finely denticulate 

 & slightly ruffled. They usually fold along the central vein. They're only two inches eight 

 lignes long by eighteen lignes wide. They're a very light green. 



The flowers are seventeen lignes in diameter. The petals are much longer than 

 they are wide, almost flat and trowel-shaped. Some red streaks are visible on their edges. 

 The tips of the stamens are light purple. 



The fruit is small, almost pear-shaped and quite enlarged at the end with the eye 

 that is set flush with the fruit. It terminates quite uniformly 



