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Its skin is smooth and very speckled with tan spots. It's a quite bright red on the side in 

 the sun & lemon yellow on the shaded side. Its other properties & the time that it ripens 

 are about the same, but its aroma & flavor have a slight scent of musk. Even though it's a 

 vigorous tree, it does well when grafted on the quince tree. It can be described by the 

 following phrase: 



Pear tree with the largest turbinate autumn fruit, lemon yellow on one side and 

 deep red on the other. 



XXV. PEAR TREE with green medium-sized orange-shaped very slightly flattened pimply 

 summer fruit. 



ORANGE musquee. (PL X.) 



This pear tree is grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are short, of average thickness, bent slightly at each bud, not very 

 spotted, reddish green on the sun side and pearl gray on the shaded side. 



The buds are short, rounded, very thick, not very pointed, not very free of the 

 branch and attached to a thick stem. 



The leaves are almost oval and terminate in a quite short & not very sharp point. 

 Their denticulation is uneven & almost indiscernible. They curve downward making a 

 fold next to the stalk. They're two inches nine lignes long and two inches two lignes 

 wide. The small leaves are long, narrow, very finely denticulate and terminate in a very 

 sharp point at both ends. The petioles are nine lignes long. The ones on the large leaves 

 are eighteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval and concave like a 

 spoon. The sections of the calyx are very long & very narrow. 



The fruit is medium-sized and shaped like an orange. It's slightly flattened from 

 the top to the stalk. It's twenty-one lignes high 



