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whose edges are raised with several small bumps. The top is quite rounded & the eye is 

 set in a not very deep recess bordered by several small bumps. It's two inches in diameter 

 & twenty-five lignes high. 



Its skin is whitish when it's grown in loose soil & gray in heavy or damp soil. 



Its flesh is somewhat greenish, delicate and soft. 



The juice is sweet, flavorful, & delicious in seasons & in areas that are favorable 

 for this fruit. 



The seeds are black & their compartments are quite wide. 



It ripens in November. December, January, & February. 



LXVI. PEAR TREE, with medium-sized, oval, somewhat golden yellow autumn fruit. 

 ECHASSERY. BEZI de Chassery. (PL XXXII.) 



This is a beautiful and fruitful tree. It readily produces fruit which it bears in 

 clusters. It's grafted on wild stock & on quince trees. Loose & gentle soil is best suited to 

 it & results in much better fruit than does heavy, damp or cold ground. 



The shoots are slender, bent at each node, very spotted, gray on one side and gray- 

 green on the other. 



The buds are of average size, longish, pointed, free of the branch and held on 

 stems that are small & not very extended. 



The leaves are long & narrow, slightly folded along the central vein and coarsely 

 & not very deeply denticulate. They're seventeen lignes wide and three inches long. The 

 petiole is eighteen lignes long. 



The flower is sixteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oblong, terminate in a 

 ruffled point, and are not very concave. 



The fruit is medium-sized, round to oval, smaller toward the stalk. It looks quite a 

 lot like the Ambrette. 



