150 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



and irregularly & not very deeply denticulate. Their petioles are eighteen to twenty lignes 

 long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are longer than they are 

 wide and they curl downward. The tips of the stamens are very big. 



The fruit is medium-sized, two inches nine lignes long & two inches three lignes 

 in diameter. It's the same shape as the Rousselet of Rheims but much bigger and a little 

 more pointed toward the stalk, which is brown and nineteen lignes long. There are often 

 several small bumps where it inserts into the fruit. The top of the fruit is flattened and the 

 eye is set in the center of a wide & deep cavity. 



Its skin is rough and speckled with small gray spots. It's dark green on the side in 

 the shade. The side in the sun is red-brown like the Rousselet. It's shaded with gray in 

 several places. 



Its flesh is semi-crisp & not very delicate. 



The juice is good, fragrant & slightly tart. 



The seeds are pretty long and rounded. 



It ripens at the end of August or the beginning of September. 



XXXV. PEAR TREE with medium-sized long pyriform summer fruit, partly pale green, partly 

 yellow, and speckled with faded blood-red spots. 



POIRE sans peau. FLEUR de Guignes.(/V. XIII.) 



This pear tree is vigorous when it's grafted on wild stock. It's only of average 

 strength when grafted on the quince tree. 



The shoots are long, straight, gray on the shaded side, reddish on the side in the 

 sun & at the tip, and very spotted. 



The buds are flat, broad at the base, pointed at the tip, stuck to the branch and 

 attached by flat stems. 



The leaves are large, three inches eight lignes long, 



