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when the fruit is ripe. The side in the sun takes on a very light red-brown tinge. 

 Its flesh is buttery, tender, & not gritty. 

 The juice is sweet & has a pleasant flavor. 



The seeds are big, very full, and come to a long & very sharp point. 

 The fruit ripens in February & March. 



LI I. PEAR TREE with very large rounded-turbinate winter fruit, green on one side, lightly pale 

 reddish on the other. 



BERGAMOTTE de Paques ou d'hiver. (PI. XXIV.) 



This is a vigorous pear tree. It's grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are short, stout, greenish gray, slightly bent at each bud and speckled 

 with very small spots that are not very conspicuous. 



The buds are big, pointed, slightly free of the branch and attached to a flat stem. 



The flowers are seventeen lignes in diameter. The petals are almost flat and are 

 trowel-shaped. 



The leaves are three inches four lignes long, two inches five lignes wide, elliptical 

 at the end near the stalk, which is white and two-&-a-half inches long. The other end 

 comes to a uniform point. They're bright green, folded along the central vein, and finely, 

 evenly, & not very deeply denticulate on the margins. The veins aren't very conspicuous. 



The fruit is very big, three inches in diameter & the same in height. Sometimes its 

 diameter exceeds its height, & then it's two inches eleven lignes in diameter by two 

 inches eight lignes high. It's round. The greatest diameter is near the eye, which is small 

 and slightly recessed. Sometimes that end is rounded; 



