PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 161 



The juice is sweet & musky. 



This pear ripens at the end of August. 



I believe that the Friolet pear that I'm about to describe is not actually a variety of 

 the preceding one but is in fact is the same pear in which the differences result only from 

 changes in the soil. 



It's medium-sized, two inches nine lignes high & twenty-seven lignes in diameter. 

 It's pyriform, somewhat rounded at the top where there are several bumps among which 

 is set a quite big & sort of crumpled eye. The stalk is the same color as the fruit, quite 

 straight, and thirteen lignes long. Frequently there's a small swelling at its origin that 

 somewhat distorts the fruit at that point, where it appears more or less truncate. 



Its skin is green & quite smooth even though it appears to be less so due to the 

 many green-brown spots that speckle it. The side in the sun is tinged with a very light, 

 pale reddish color. 



Its flesh is semi-crisp and a little dry & coarse. 



The juice is very musky. 



It ripens at the beginning of September. 



XLV. PEAR TREE with large turbinate rough summer fruit, bright green marked with tan spots. 



BERGAMOTTE d'ete. [Translator's note: the Bergamot is an ancient pear. Its name is 

 thought to derive from Pergamum, a city in ancient Asia Minor, or from Bergamo, a town in northern Italy, 

 or from the Turkish bey-armudu, or Prince's Pear. MILAN de la Beuvriere. 



This pear tree is grafted equally well on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are slender, average in length, bent at each node, mealy, reddish 

 tending to burgundy, and not very speckled. 



The buds are thick, short, flattened, & not very pointed. The stems are thick & 

 grooved. 



