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most worthwhile cultivating. It's believed to have originated in Alen?on [Translator's 

 note: a town in an agricultural region west of Paris] where it's known as the Alenqon 

 Bergamotte. 



LIV. PEAR TREE with large, somewhat turbinate autumn fruit, partly golden yellow, partly 

 slightly red. 



BERGAMOTTE Cadette. POIRE de Cadet. (PL XL/V. Fig. 2.) 



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

 it yields a lot of fruit. 



The shoots are short, stout, straight, yellow gray, almost russet and flecked with 

 large spots. 



The buds are large, oblong, rounded, pointed, free of the branch, and held on thick 

 stems. 



The leaves are average-sized, three inches long and twenty-five lignes wide, 

 rounded at the end near the petiole and terminating in a point at the other end. The veins 

 are very prominent even on the upper side of the leaf. The midrib curves downward, & 

 most of the leaves fold along the central vein. The margins are smooth & have no 

 denticulation at all. The petioles are about nine lignes long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are rounded and concave 

 spoonlike. The tips of the sections of the calyx have a slight tinge of red. 



The fruit is big. It's two inches eight lignes in diameter & two inches seven lignes 

 high with a somewhat turbinate shape. In soil that isn't very suitable for this pear tree the 

 fruit is generally only twenty-four or twenty-five lignes high by twenty-five or twenty-six 

 lignes in diameter. It's rounder & shaped more like the orange pear than turbinate. The 

 top end is quite rounded & the eye, very open, is set in a flattened part of it. The thick 

 stalk, 



