178 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



they're long, narrow and ruffled on the margins. The large ones are almost round and 

 concave spoonlike. The tips of the stamens are big and light purple mingled with white. 



The fruit is big, round, and flattened. It's thirty lignes in diameter & twenty-six 

 lignes high. The top is flattened & the eye is located there in a smooth & wide 

 indentation. The stalk is straight, eleven lignes long and inserts into a very narrow cavity. 

 The fruit of the non- variegated double-flowered pear tree is more oblong near the stalk. 

 Its diameter is almost equal to its length, & it looks a lot like a Bergamot. The fruit of the 

 variegated double-flowered pear tree is more rounded at the end near the stalk; its 

 diameter is greater than its height & it's closer to the winter Orange pear in shape. 



Its flesh isn't gritty; it takes on a lot of color when heated. 



The juice is plentiful. 



The seeds are flat, wide, and dark brown. 



This pear ripens in February, March, & April. It's very good when stewed & in 

 compotes. That's all it's good for. 



LIX. PEAR TREE, with small, somewhat round autumn fruit, green, somewhat obscured with 

 spots. 



BEZY de Caissoy. [Translator's note: thought to have originated in the forest of Quessoy in 

 Brittany.] ROUSSETTE d'Anjou. (PL XXIX.) 



This tree prefers to be planted in good quality, pure, somewhat heavy soil. It can't 

 be grafted on quince trees at all, & even when grafted on wild stock it's very frail & not 

 very vigorous when it's in loose soil. 



