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in a blunt or truncated point at the stalk, which is light yellow, eighteen lignes long, and 

 slightly plump at its origin. 



Its flesh is somewhat coarse. 



The juice is quite plentiful and very musky. 



The seeds are small, brown, and quite full. This pear ripens in mid-August. 



XXI. PEAR TREE with medium-sized round wax-colored summer fruit marked with reddish 

 spots. 



SALVIATI. (PL IX.) 



This is a vigorous pear tree when grafted on wild stock. Grafts on quince trees do 

 poorly. 



The shoots are slender. They form a small bend at each bud. They're speckled 

 with spots that are so tiny they're scarcely visible. On the quince tree they're red; on wild 

 stock they're greenish brown on the shaded side and a light red-brown on the sun side. 



The buds are big, brown, pointed, close to the branch and held on thick stems. 



The leaves are two inches ten lignes long and two inches two lignes wide. They're 

 round at the end near the stalk, light green, irregularly & quite deeply denticulate and are 

 folded along the central vein. The midrib curves downward. The small leaves are very 

 oblong & narrow (thirty-three lignes by twelve lignes). Their denticulation is barely 

 discernible. The petioles are sixteen lignes long, quite thick, and are just as yellow as the 

 central vein. 



The flowers are fourteen lignes in diameter. The petals are short ovals and very 

 concave spoonlike. 



The fruit is round and medium-sized. 



