182 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The shoots are sort of shriveled-looking, reddish, and flecked with light gray spots. 



The leaves are medium-sized, narrow and very lightly denticulate (some of them 

 have no denticulation at all). They're two inches nine lignes long and twenty-two lignes 

 wide. Sometimes they're wavy or undulating along the margins. The petioles are eleven 

 lignes long. 



The fruit is long, substantial and quite well formed. It's frequently a little bumpy 

 at one end & sort of arched at the other. Its largest diameter is near its middle; it 

 decreases in size toward both ends & especially near the stalk where it terminates in too 

 sharp a point to be considered pyriform in this part. It's usually rounded at the top where 

 the eye, which is small, is indented into quite a wide recess. The stalk is straight, ten 

 lignes long, and inserts flush with the fruit. This pear is two inches four lignes in diameter 

 & it's two inches ten lignes high. 



Its skin takes on a light tinge of red on the side in the sun; the other side turns 

 lemon yellow when the fruit ripens. But it's almost completely covered with gray specks 

 & spots, especially on the sun side. 



The seeds are longish & black. 



This pear is very good when stewed & in compotes. Its flesh is soft & turns a 

 lovely color when it's cooked. The juice is very plentiful & isn't tart; it's a little bland 

 when the fruit is very ripe. It's consumed from October until February. 



LXII. PEAR TREE, with medium-sized, long pyriform summer fruit, green, golden yellow toward 

 the pedicel 



EPINE d'ete. FONDANTE musquee. (PL XXX.) 



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



