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one inch ten lignes in diameter & three inches high. Its top is rounded & slightly 

 enlarged, & the eye, which isn't big, is set in a not very deep cavity. The other end 

 becomes elongated as it diminishes in size. The stalk, thick, brown, knobby, one inch 

 long, looks as though it were an extension of the fruit. The top end is rounded only along 

 its length & not around its diameter. Consequently this pear when viewed from the end 

 with the eye appears to be triangular. 



Its skin is quite smooth & is green-brown, even when the fruit ripens. 



Its flesh is white, tender, & quite delicate. 



The juice is sweet, sugary & is somewhat similar to that of the Epargne. 



The seeds are long & black. 



It ripens at the beginning of September. 



LXIV. PEAR TREE, with large, long, smooth green to white autumn fruit. 

 EPINE d'hiver. (PL XLIV.fig. 3.) 



Cultivation of this pear tree requires some care. In dry ground it prefers to be 

 grafted on wild stock, & in damp ground on quince trees. If neither dryness nor dampness 

 prevails in the soil & if the tree grows well there on the quince tree, it should be grafted 

 on the quince tree. Its fruit will be the better for it. It prefers a good exposure. It does 

 quite well in open ground when it's grafted on wild stock & planted in damp soil. 



The shoots are average in length & strength. They're slightly bent at each bud and 

 are speckled with small whitish spots. 



The buds are flattened, triangular, lie against the branch, 



