176 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



LVII. PEAR TREE with large, somewhat rounded, flattened turbinate summer fruit, partly green 

 to golden yellow, partly pale rose-colored. 



EPINE-ROSE. POIRE de Rose. 



This pear tree is grafted on wild stock & on quince trees. 



The shoots are thick, not very elongated, quite bent at each node, reddish brown 

 bordering on deep purple, and very much speckled with very tiny light gray spots. 



The buds are flat, very broad at the base, practically stuck to the branch and 

 attached to thick stems. 



The leaves are large and very wide near the petiole, which is thick and fifteen 

 lignes long. The denticulation on the margins is barely discernible, uneven, not very deep 

 & widely spaced. The leaves are three inches long & two inches seven lignes wide. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval & very flat. 



The fruit is big, round, flattened from the top to the stalk, twenty-seven lignes 

 long in this dimension by thirty in diameter. Its shape closely resembles that of the 

 Crasanne. It's flattened at the top, which has a not very large indentation containing quite 

 a big eye. The stalk, the color of wood, twenty lignes long and usually recurved, likewise 

 is set into an indentation. 



Its skin is yellowish green and flecked & mottled with brown. On the side in the 

 sun it's tinged a reddish tan. 



Its flesh is white, tender and semi-soft. 



The juice is musky & sweet and has the same flavor as that of the Ognonnet pear. 

 That's the extent of the similarity between the Epine-Rose pear tree & the Ognonnet, even 

 though several authorities also draw comparisons between their wood, their leaves & the 

 shapes of their fruit. 



