174 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



inserts into a wide & not very deep cavity. The eye is small and is set in a smooth & not 

 very deep indentation. The fruit is two inches eight lignes in diameter & two inches six- 

 &-a-half lignes high. Older trees in good soil sometimes yield pears that are three inches 

 four lignes in diameter by three inches two lignes high. 



Its skin is slightly rough. It's a golden yellow that's very browned by spots that 

 almost completely cover it. 



Its flesh is crisp, often gritty, & somewhat liable to soften. 



The juice is plentiful, very flavorful & delicious. 



The seeds are a very light brown, small, not very pointed, and very full. 



The fruit ripens in October. 



The color of the Messire-Jean pear varies with the age and vigor of the tree & the 

 stock on which it's grafted. If the tree is old & in decline, the fruit is very pale yellow, 

 almost white. If it's young, vigorous and grafted on wild stock, the fruit is gray, it doesn't 

 grow as big, & it's a little more gritty. So the gray, white, and golden Messire-Jean are the 

 same kind & not three different types, nor even three different varieties. 



LVI. PEAR TREE with small, flattened-iurhinate summer frail, green to somewhat white. 

 ROBINE. ROY ALE d'ete. (PL XXVII.) 



This pear tree greatly resembles the Cassolette. It's grafted on wild stock & on the 

 quince tree. It produces fruit with difficulty on wild stock. 



The shoots are quite stout, straight, gray green on the shaded side and russet on 

 the side in the sun (the tips are green on the side in the shade and reddish on the side in 

 the sun). They're speckled with quite big light gray spots. 



