PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 159 



XLIII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized pyriform gourd-shaped smooth shiny summer fruit, partly 

 a rich green, partly pale red. 



INCONNU CHENEAU. FOND ANTE DE BREST. (PL XVII.) 



This is a fruitful pear tree. It's vigorous on wild stock but never grows straight on 

 the quince tree. 



The shoots are long, stout, and very much bent at each node, except at the tip 

 where they're straight. They're gray, very speckled, lightly tinged with red on the side in 

 the sun and reddish at the tip. 



The buds are short, wide at the base, flattened, free of the branch and attached to a 

 thick & wide stem. 



The leaves are quite large, three inches three lignes long and two inches four 

 lignes wide. They're finely denticulate and are attached to the branch by a petiole two 

 inches long. 



The flowers are an inch in diameter. The petals are oval and very concave 

 spoonlike. 



The fruit is medium-sized, longer than it is round, pyriform, often raised with 

 several ridges, especially at the top end where they form an indentation in which the eye 

 is set. Generally the end near the stalk is slightly truncate & the stalk, nineteen lignes 

 long, inserts flush with the fruit. This pear is two inches in diameter & twenty-five lignes 

 high. The bottom is very enlarged. 



Its skin is thin, smooth, shiny & sort of oily to the touch. It's bright green, finely 

 speckled green-brown on the shaded side and a somewhat pale red (sometimes it takes on 

 quite a strong red color) speckled with light gray spots on the side in the sun. 

 Its flesh is white, crisp, delicate, & is not tender even though the pear bears that name. It 

 has a tendency to turn soft. 



The juice is sweet & enhanced with a slight, delicate tartness that's quite pleasant. 



