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The leaves are somewhat whitish, round, folded in different directions, recurved 

 downward, and not very finely & deeply denticulate. They're two inches six lignes long 

 & two inches three lignes wide. The petiole is fifteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fourteen lignes in diameter. The petals are almost oval and 

 concave spoonlike. 



The fruit is small, roughly the size & shape of a hen's egg, oval and slightly 

 pinched at the small end. It's fifteen lignes in diameter & nineteen lignes long. The eye is 

 set in a small indentation that has an edge on one side raised more than on the other. The 

 stalk is slender and is the same thickness along its entire length. It has a number of small 

 spots on it near the end where it attaches to the branch, & it's slightly bent into a hook at 

 that end. It's about an inch long & inserts into a small funnel-shaped recess. 



Its skin on the shaded side is green, slightly yellow, like the Verte-longue, but it's 

 speckled with reddish bran-colored spots. It's reddish mixed with green on the side in the 

 sun. 



Its flesh is delicate and semi-soft like the Rousselet. Sometimes it's tender & 

 semi-buttery. 



The juice is sugary, sweet, slightly musky and has a flavor that's pleasant and isn't 

 tart. 



Some of the seeds are white and others are black. 



This pear ripens between mid- August & the beginning of September, along with 

 the Roi d'ete & the Epargne. 



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