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The seeds are black & often abort. 



This pear ripens from the beginning to the middle of August. Some gardeners call 

 it the Caillot-Rosat, but that is another pear that ripens at the end of September. This is a 

 beautiful one & would be more commendable if it didn't soften so quickly & if its juice 

 didn't possess a little too much acidity. Merlet, who seems not to have known about it, 

 gave its name to three pears that are very different from it, the Eau-rose pear, the Tulipee 

 pear, & the Malta pear. 



LVIII. PEAR TREE, semi-double-flowered with large, flattened-turbinate smooth winter fruit, 

 partly green, partly deep red. 



DOUBLE-FLEUR. 



PEAR TREE, semi-double-flowered with large, jlattened-round winter fruit with green & 

 yellow stripes c£ marked with red spots. 



DOUBLE-FLEUR panachee. (PL XXVIII.) 



The double-flowered pear tree & its variegated variety are very vigorous & are 

 grafted on wild stock & on quince trees. 



The shoots are big & strong, yellow green on the shaded side and reddish on the 

 side in the sun. The ones on the variegated double-flowered tree have reddish, green- 

 brown, & yellow streaks. 



The buds are large & flattened. 



The leaves are very large, flat, very wide at the end near the stalk and 

 progressively narrowing toward the tip, which is very sharp. They're thick, substantial 

 and unevenly & not very deeply denticulate. They're three inches ten lignes long and two 

 inches seven lignes wide. The petioles are thick and twenty lignes long. 



The flowers are large, beautiful, & very open. They're eighteen lignes in diameter. 

 They have ten to fifteen petals. The four or five inner petals are much smaller than the 

 others; 



