PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 163 



The buds are small, very short, not very free of the branch and are attached to 

 thick & swollen stems. 



The leaves are small, oblong, wide near the petiole, which is slender & very long 

 (two inches six lignes). The leaves are flat and have no denticulation. They're thirty-two 

 lignes long and nineteen lignes wide. 



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

 concave spoonlike. 



The fruit is medium-sized, turbinate, twenty-four lignes in diameter by twenty- 

 two lignes high. The top is somewhat flattened & the eye is set in a small indentation. 

 The stalk is three to ten lignes long, quite thick, and inserts into a narrow cavity or 

 indentation. 



Its skin is deep yellow. It turns redder on the sun side than the other Bergamot 

 pears do. 



Its flesh is almost tender. It turns mealy & softens quickly if the fruit is left to 

 ripen on the tree. 



The juice is flavorful & very fragrant. It's not so plentiful when the fruit is 

 extremely ripe. 



The seeds are light brown and quite full. 



This pear ripens about mid-September. It's quite musky & slightly dry but is very 

 good in compotes. Some nurserymen call it the Crassane d'Ete because the tree has the 

 same habit as that of the Crassane pear tree. Since it's very full of a lot of fruit, its largest 

 pears often are only twenty-one lignes in diameter by nineteen or twenty lignes high. 



XLVII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized, somewhat rounded turbinate autumn fruit streaked with 

 yellow, green, & blood red bands. 



BERGAMOTTE SUISSE. (Pi XX.) 



This is a fruitful pear tree & it does well when grafted both on wild stock & on the 

 quince tree. 



