138 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



It's twenty-three lignes high & the same in diameter. The eye is set in a not very deep 

 recess with several small ridges at its margins. Sometimes the sections of the calyx 

 remain green until the fruit ripens. The stalk is seventeen lignes long and inserts into a 

 very small recess. 



Its skin is a beautiful waxen yellow, slightly red on the side toward the sun. 

 Sometimes it's speckled with large reddish spots & then it's rough. 



Its flesh is delicious, semi-buttery, and without residue. 



The juice is sweet & fragrant; at times it's not very plentiful. 



Some of the seeds are flat; others are rounded & longish. 



This pear ripens in August. It's good with sugar & for making ratafias. 



XXII. PEAR TREE with small, turbinate summer fruit, green to somewhat golden yellow. 

 POIRE d'Ange. 



This is a small top-shaped pear. It's twenty-one lignes high by eighteen lignes in 

 diameter. It's rounded at the top where there's quite a big eye that's set almost flush with 

 the fruit in the center of a not very deep recess. The stalk is green, slender, and seventeen 

 lignes long. At the end of the fruit where it's attached there are some bumps. 



Its skin is thin and yellowish green. 



Its flesh is semi-crisp and quite delicate. 



The juice is very musky. 



The seeds are black. 



This pear ripens at the beginning of August. It's not likely to get mealy. It's 

 thought to be a variety of the Salviati, more oblong, not as big & not as good. 



