164 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The shoots are medium-sized, long, straight, striped or variegated yellow & green 

 & with a bit of red on the side in the sun. 



The buds are small, rounded, and very free of the branch. The stems are flat. 



The leaves are oblong, twenty-seven lignes wide and thirty-seven lignes long. The 

 margins have several teeth at some distance from one another & barely discernible. The 

 margins form wavy bends or undulations. The midrib curves downward. The petiole is 

 two inches six lignes long. 



The flowers are sixteen lignes in diameter. The petals are almost lozenge shaped 

 and concave spoonlike. 



The fruit is medium-sized, twenty-seven lignes in diameter & twenty-eight lignes 

 high. Its stalk, six to twelve lignes long, inserts into a very small cavity & more often into 

 the middle of a small flattening. The stalk is of average thickness and white except at 

 some places on the side in the sun that are tinged with gold. The fruit is top-shaped at the 

 end near the stalk. The end with the eye also becomes smaller & is slightly elongated. 

 Sometimes it's flattened. 



Its skin is smooth with green & yellow stripes. The side in the sun takes on a light 

 tinge of red which is much more evident on the yellow stripes than on the green ones. 



Its flesh is tender & buttery and not gritty. 



The juice is sweet & plentiful when the fruit hasn't yet ripened on the tree. 



The seeds are light brown, quite full, and terminate in a long point. 



It ripens in October. 



This pear tree doesn't like an exposure with too much sun. It appears to be a 

 variety of the one that follows. 



