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and twenty-one lignes wide. The denticulation is quite fine and not very deep or sharp. 

 The petioles are two inches to two inches six lignes long. 



The flowers are seventeen lignes in diameter. The petals are racket-shaped, 

 rounded at the tips, narrowing uniformly & coming to a point at the margin of the calyx. 



The fruit is medium-sized, slightly oblong and twenty-six lignes high by twenty- 

 two lignes in diameter. It's pear-shaped and rounded at the top where there is a large, 

 almost protruding eye. The stalk is thick & short, nine lignes long at most. At the end of 

 the fruit where the stalk attaches there are almost always several bumps & the stalk often 

 is recurved or recumbent at that spot. As a result it inserts obliquely into the fruit, & it's 

 more or less covered up by the bump where it implants. 



Its skin is gray, dove-colored, slightly tinged with red on the side in the sun. 

 When the fruit is fully ripe the skin is yellow, spotted with gray, & mottled with light red 

 on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is semi-crisp and not very delicate. 



The juice is sweet and is enhanced with a pleasant, light fragrance. 



The seeds are black & elongated. 



This pear ripens in mid-August. 



XLII. PEAR TREE with small, egg-shaped summer fruit. 

 POIRE D'CEUF. 



This is a vigorous & beautiful tree when it's grafted on wild stock. It does poorly 

 on the quince tree. Its productivity is very mediocre. 



The shoots are somewhat mealy, very long & slender and very bent at each node. 

 They're reddish green on the shaded side, redder on the side in the sun, and speckled. 



The buds are short, flat, more or less stuck to the branch and held by flat stems. 



