142 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The fruit has the same shape as the Orange musquee but it's bigger. 



Its skin is gray & coral red. 



Its flesh is crisp & becomes mealy when the fruit ripens on the tree. 



The juice is sweet & musky. 



This pear ripens in August. 



XXVII. PEAR TREE with small, somewhat round orange-shaped pale green summer fruit. 

 BOURDON musque. 



This pear tree is grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree & it's very fruitful. 

 But on wild stock it's slow to bear fruit. 



Its shoots are quite stout, not very elongated, considerably bent at each bud, 

 yellowish green and not very speckled. 



The buds are big, wide at the base, flattened and terminate in a long & very sharp 

 point. Their stems are very stout and swollen below the eye. 



The leaves are almost round or are a shortened oval. They're two inches seven 

 Hgnes long, two inches four lignes wide, smooth on the margins and folded along the 

 central vein. The midrib curves downward. The petioles are about fifteen lignes long. 



The flowers are quite open; they're fourteen lignes in diameter. The petals are 

 round and almost flat. The tips of the stamens are bright pink. 



The fruit is small, almost round, flattened near the top and shaped like an orange. 

 It's seventeen lignes high & eighteen-&-a-half lignes in diameter. The eye is quite big and 

 is set in a broad & shallow recess. Sometimes this pear is shaped a little like a top at the 

 end near the stalk, which is straight & fifteen lignes long. 



