PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 165 



XLVIII. PEAR TREE with large, flattened-turbinate autumn fruit, partly golden yellow, partly 

 pale reddish. 



BERGAMOTTE d'Automne. (PL XXL) 



This tree is grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. It prefers to be on espalier 

 since it becomes scurfy as a bush tree & in open ground. 



The shoots are short, quite thick, light gray tending toward green and speckled 

 with very tiny spots. 



The buds are big, rounded, long, very pointed and quite free of the branch. Their 

 stems are almost flat. 



The leaves are long and their denticulation is almost indiscernible. The midrib 

 curves downward. They're three inches long and nineteen lignes wide. The petioles are 

 nine lignes long; those on the medium-sized leaves are two inches long. 



The flowers are fourteen lignes in diameter and very open. The petals are pretty 

 long and almost flat. 



The fruit is big and flattened at the top. It's twenty-eight lignes in diameter & 

 twenty-seven lignes high. Sometimes it's bigger than that, but more often it's smaller, 

 depending on the soil. The eye is small and is set in a smooth & not very deep cavity. It 

 often is missing sections of the calyx. The quite thick stalk is six to ten lignes long and 

 also inserts into small cavity. 



Its flesh is tender & buttery. 



The juice is sweet, sugary, very fresh and enhanced with a slight fragrance. 



The seeds are light brown, quite foil, elongated and come to a very sharp point. 



