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The other end doesn't decrease uniformly in size. Rather it looks somewhat like a gourd 

 and comes to a moderately sharp point. The surface of the fruit is uneven. 



Its skin is tender, cream-colored or light hazel on the shaded side, bright red on 

 the side in the sun and speckled with small white spots that are very conspicuous on the 

 red. 



Its flesh is quite delicate, crisp, sometimes a bit gritty. 



The juice is sweet, somewhat fragrant & pleasant. 



The seeds are dark brown, long, & of average thickness. 



The fruit ripens in November, December, & January. 



XXXVII. PEAR TREE with small pyriform-gourd-shaped autumn fruit. 

 ROUSSELINE. (PL XV.) 



The Rousseline pear tree should never be grafted on a quince tree but only on 

 wild stock. 



The shoots are slender, quite straight, gray-green on the shaded side, very light 

 reddish on the side in the sun and not very speckled. 



The buds are thick at the base, rounded, very pointed, and free of the branch. 

 Their stems are prominent. 



The leaves are small, mostly round and the margins are not denticulate. They're 

 two inches four Hgnes long, twenty-two lignes wide, and flat. The petioles are fourteen to 

 sixteen lignes long. 



The flowers are small and very open. They're only ten lignes in diameter. The 

 petals are slightly longer than they are wide and are concave spoonlike. Some have a light 

 red color at the margin. The tips of the stamens are deep purple. 



The fruit is small, eighteen lignes in diameter by twenty-seven lignes high. 



