160 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The seeds are long, black, and often fail to develop. 



This pear ripens at the end of August & the beginning of September. 



XLI V. PEAR TREE with small pyriform summer fruit, partly green to yellowish, partly pale red. 



CASSOLETTE [Translator's note: a name that suggests a shape similar to that of a 

 perfuming pot.]. FRIOLET. MUSCAT-VERT. LECHEFRION. (PL XVIII.) 



This is an extremely handsome tree and a very fruitful one. It's grafted on wild 

 stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are pretty long, of medium thickness, bent at each node, gray on the 

 shaded side (sometimes light green when grafted on wild stock) and reddish on the side 

 in the sun & at the tip. 



The buds are thin, rounded, long, very pointed, free of the branch and are attached 

 to prominent & swollen stems. 



The leaves are three inches two lignes long and twenty-six lignes wide. The 

 midrib is curved downward. The margins are ruffled & form large wavy pleats. The teeth 

 are large, not very pointed, & not at all deep. Some leaves have almost no denticulation. 

 The petiole is sixteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fourteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval-oblong and not 

 very concave spoonlike. 



The fruit is small, twenty lignes in diameter & twenty-four lignes high. It's pear- 

 shaped, rounded at the top where the eye is almost flush with the fruit. The end near the 

 stalk is quite large & at the tip there's an indentation into which the stalk inserts. The 

 stalk is light green, slender, & seven lignes long. 



Its skin is a yellowish delicate green. It's lightly streaked with red on the side in 

 the sun. 



Its flesh is crisp & tender. 



