144 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XXIX. PEAR TREE with medium-sized flattened orange-shaped, later greening winter fruit. 

 ORANGE d'hiver. (PL XIX. fig. 4.) 



This is quite a vigorous tree. It's grafted on wild stock and on the quince tree. 



The shoots are straight, long and slender, light purple red and a little mealy. 



The buds are short, wide at the base and sort of stuck to the branch. The stems 

 don't project much. 



The leaves are oblong and rounded at the stalk. The margins are not denticulate. 

 The midrib curves downward near the tip. The leaves are two inches eight lignes long & 

 twenty lignes wide. The petiole is slender and two inches four lignes long. 



The flowers are very open. They're fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are fairly 

 long, racket-shaped, and quite concave like a spoon. The tips of the stamens are light 

 purple, almost rose-colored. 



The fruit is medium-sized, shaped like the other Orange pears, round and flattened 

 at the ends. It's twenty-four lignes high & twenty-seven lignes in diameter (sometimes 

 greater in both dimensions). The eye is only very slightly recessed & is almost even with 

 the fruit. The stalk inserts into the bottom of a small cavity. It's thick & about six or seven 

 lignes long. 



Its skin is very thin, a brownish green that becomes a little paler when the fruit 

 ripens. It's strewn with very tiny browner green spots and is slightly pimply. It often has 

 very prominent warts on it. 



Its flesh is white, delicate, crisp, & not gritty. 



The juice is very musky & quite pleasant. 



