PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 179 



The shoots are long, straight, slender, quite full of buds, light brown, mealy, & not 

 very speckled. 



The buds are big relative to the shoot. They're slightly flattened and are free of the 

 branch. Their stems are thick and swollen above & below the eye. 



The leaves are small, round, uniformly & quite deeply denticulate, sometimes 

 farinaceous. They're twenty-three lignes long and nineteen lignes wide. 



The flowers are eleven lignes in diameter. The petals are oval and concave 

 spoonlike. The tips of the stamens are very deep purple. 



The fruit is small, round, and slightly flattened at the top. It's nineteen lignes in 

 diameter & seventeen lignes high. The eye is small and not very deeply recessed. Its stalk 

 is straight, six lignes long and inserts into a cavity that's deep & wide relative to the small 

 size if the fruit. The fruit is plentiful & grows in clusters. 



Its skin is green. It turns yellow when the fruit ripens, but it's so thoroughly 

 covered with brown spots that the color is barely visible. 



Its flesh is tender & buttery. 



The juice tastes very good & has a lot of the Crasanne in it, though it has none of 

 the tartness. When this pear tree is declining in soil that doesn't agree with it, the juice is 

 tasteless or has a flavor that's not very pleasant. 



The seeds are small, black, & often abort. 



This pear ripens in November. It's highly regarded in Brittany where it grows 

 well; that's where it comes from. 



Another Roussette pear (Fig. 2.), is also cultivated in Brittany. It's not as small as 

 the preceding one. It's twenty-one lignes in diameter & twenty-one lignes high. 



