146 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Its flesh is crisp. It's often somewhat gritty next to the seeds. 

 The juice is sweet and sugary, sometimes slightly fragrant. 

 Normally there are only four seed compartments in this pear. Each one contains 

 two broad, flat, light brown seeds. 

 It ripens in January. 



XXXI. PEAR TREE with small, pyriform, partly greener partly dark red winter fruit. 

 ROUSSELETd'hiver. (PL XIX. Jig. 2.) 



This pear tree is grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree & is just as vigorous 

 on each one. 



The shoots are medium-sized, longish, straight, reddish brown, quite bright & 

 shiny and not very spotted. 



The buds are flat, very short, and lie close to the branch. On their wide base there 

 are two or three very bright red spots or small scales. The stems are not very prominent. 



The leaves are two inches nine lignes long and twenty-two lignes wide. The 

 margins are very finely & evenly denticulate & form several large folds. The petioles are 

 two inches six lignes long. The leaves are slightly elliptical. 



The flowers are sixteen lignes in diameter. The petals are almost oval, ruffled & 

 sort of wrinkled at the tips and edged with several red streaks. 



The fruit is small, two inches high & eighteen lignes in diameter. It's pyriform, 

 quite similar to the Rousselet de Reims but it's not quite as big & is less pointed. The eye 

 is flush with the fruit. The stalk is curved, seven lignes long, and inserts into a very 

 shallow indentation. 



