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turn yellow when the fruit ripens. The side in the sun is red-brown. It's shaded & flecked 

 with gray all over. 



It's flesh is semi-buttery, quite delicate & delicious. 



The juice has a fragrance unique to this fruit and a very pleasant, musky flavor. 



The seeds are wide and brown. 



This pear ripens at the end of August or at the beginning of September & softens 

 very quickly. When grown in the open it's doesn't get as big, but it's a much better pear 

 than when it's on espalier & as a bush tree. 



Although this pear tree does well in all kinds of terrain, it's best suited to loose 

 soil. Everyone knows how superior are the Rousselet pears harvested in the courtyards & 

 gardens of the town of Rheims to those from the countryside. 



XXXIII. PEAR TREE with small, pyhform, dark red to yellow summer fruit. 

 Early ROUSSELET hatif. Cyprus PEAR. PERDREAU. 



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



The shoots are short, slender, quite straight, reddish brown tending slightly to 

 purple, not very spotted and covered with a sort of gray-white bloom. 



The buds are short, almost flat, broad at the base, stuck to the branch and attached 

 to a thick stem. 



The leaves are round, three inches long and two inches eight lignes wide. They 

 terminate in a sharp point and fold along the central vein. The denticulation on the 

 margins is wide & not very deep. The petiole is six lignes long. The medium leaves are 

 oblong, wide near the stalk which is twelve lignes long and very lightly & unevenly 

 denticulate. 



