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by twenty-five in diameter. The top is slightly rounded and the eye is set in a wide cavity; 

 more often it's flat & the eye is almost flush with it. The stalk is thick, an inch long and 

 inserts into the bottom of a small recess marked by several protrusions. A particularly 

 large one of these covers the origin of the stalk. 



Its skin is entirely covered with small indentations like those on a Portugal 

 orange. It's green that takes on a very little red color. When the fruit is ripe it becomes 

 yellow that's almost white on the shaded side & is tinged with very light red on the side 

 in the sun. 



Its flesh is crisp & becomes mealy if the fruit has not been picked while it's still 

 slightly green. 



The juice is enhanced with a very pleasant musk flavor. 



The seeds are black & very plump. The axis of the fruit is hollow. 



This pear ripens in August. 



XXVI. PEAR TREE with medium-sized orange-shaped summer fruit, partly ash gray, partly 

 marked with red. 



ORANGE rouge. 



This is quite a vigorous tree; it's grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



Its shoots are thick & straight, reddish and spotted. 



The buds are big and pointed. They lie against the branch and are attached to not 

 very prominent stems. 



The leaves are almost oval, three inches six lignes long, two inches three lignes 

 wide. They become narrower toward the tip, which is long & sharp. The denticulation on 

 the margins is large & not very deep. The petioles are twenty-two lignes long. The 

 medium-sized leaves are almost round & their petioles are about fourteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are long & come to a point. 



