PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 175 



The buds are big and are very free of the branch. Their tips are very sharp & a 

 shiny light brown. The stems are broad & flat. 



The leaves are large, three inches long and two inches five lignes wide. They bend 

 slightly downward and are attached to the branch by a stalk seventeen lignes long. The 

 denticulation is very fine & scarcely discernible. 



The flowers are large, nineteen lignes in diameter. The petals are very elongated, 

 narrow, sharp at both ends and attached by a very long unguis. 



The fruit is small, rounded, and shaped like a very short top or like a small 

 Bergamot. It's slightly flattened at the top end that has quite a deep indentation where the 

 eye is set. Occasionally it's not so deep but it's very wide. There's no cavity where the 

 stalk inserts but there are some bumps. It's only separated from the fruit by a very narrow 

 groove. It's average in thickness & it's eighteen lignes long. The fruit is twenty-one lignes 

 high by twenty lignes in diameter. 



Its skin is a whitish green with brownish green spots. It turns yellow when the 

 fruit ripens. 



Its flesh is white, semi-crisp, and a bit dry. It's not liable to soften. 



The juice is very musky & sweet. 



The seeds are brown, wide, and quite full. 



This pear ripens in August. It grows bigger when the pear tree is grafted on the 

 quince tree rather than on wild stock. 



# 



