154 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



It's pyriform and pointed at the end near the stalk, which is thirteen to eighteen lignes 

 long. Sometimes it's slightly gourd-shaped. The bottom is very enlarged. The top isn't at 

 all rounded, but it's oblong, much smaller than the bottom & sort of compressed. The eye 

 is situated at the tip in a small indentation with creases around it. 



Its skin is a much lighter color than that of the Rousselet & even the Martin-sec. 



Its flesh is semi-buttery, fine & delicate. 



The juice is sweet, musky, & very pleasant. 



This pear ripens in November. All authorities that have described this fruit 

 compare it to the Rousselet. Overall, these two pears appear to resemble each other. But 

 that can't be definitely & precisely determined based only on shape, or on color, or on 

 flavor. 



XXXVIII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized usually blunt pyriform summer fruit, lemon yellow 

 on one side to reddish on the other & marked with red spots. 



AH! MON DIEU. [Translator's note: "Oh My God" - believed to be the words of 

 Louis XIV when he saw the tree full of fruit in his garden.] 



This is a very fruitful pear tree. It's similar to the Rousselet of Rheims & it's 

 grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



Its fruit is medium-sized, twenty-two to twenty-four lignes in diameter by twenty- 

 seven or twenty-eight lignes high. It's quite round at its largest part, which is closer to the 

 top than it is to the stalk. Sometimes the top is a little more elongated. The eye is flush 

 with the fruit and surrounded by not very prominent bumps situated opposite the sections 

 of the calyx. The filaments of the stamens are bright red and persist until the fruit is ripe. 

 The part of the fruit near the stalk is oblong. It decreases in size quite uniformly & 

 terminates in a blunt point. The stalk is fifteen to eighteen lignes long; it's somewhat 

 plump at its origin and inserts flush with the fruit between several small bumps or 

 swellings. 



