PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 149 



The flowers are an inch in diameter. The petals are rounded at the tip and not very 

 concave spoonlike. Some of the flowers have up to nine petals. 



The fruit is small, pyriform, twenty-two lignes high & twenty lignes in diameter 

 and rounded at the top where the eye is set in a small, smooth indentation with no 

 creases. The stalk is yellowish green, quite thick, a little fleshy and about thirteen lignes 

 long. 



Its skin is thin, yellow on the side in the shade and bright red flecked with gray 

 spots on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is slightly yellow and semi-crisp. There are grains or very small granules 

 around the seeds. 



The juice is sweet & very fragrant. 



The seeds are light brown and not very full. 



This pear ripens around the middle of July. It looks a lot like the Rousselet of 

 Rheims, but it doesn't have the same flavor & fragrance. It makes extremely good 

 compotes. 



XXXIV. PEAR TREE with medium-sized sharply pyriform rough summer fruit, a dense green 

 on one side to dark red on the other. 



ROY dete. Gros ROUSSELET (PL XII.) 



This is a vigorous pear tree & is grafted on wild stock & on the quince. 



The shoots are stout, strong, long, reddish brown shading to dark purple and very 

 speckled with small yellow-white spots. They're considerably bent at each node. 



The buds are flat, triangular, wider at the base than they are long, close to the 

 branch and attached to not very prominent stems. 



The leaves are large, two inches eight lignes wide, three inches six lignes long, 

 flat, 



