PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 189 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are quite narrow and are 

 pointed at both ends. 



The fruit is medium-sized and not very uniform in shape. Sometimes it resembles 

 the two preceding ones, sometimes it's close to a Bergamot. Usually it's quite rounded 

 and twenty-six lignes in diameter by twenty-eight lignes high. The top is round & the 

 large eye is set flush with the fruit. The stalk is short, slender, slightly curved & inserts 

 into a small indentation. At times it's quite long & inserts flush with the fruit. 



Its skin is greenish, a bit rough & often is dotted with small bumps. It tends to be 

 a bit yellow when the fruit ripens. 



It has soft, very delicate buttery flesh. It's not gritty & it leaves no residue. 



The juice is sweet, musky, & has a very pleasant flavor. 



This pear ripens in November. To get delicious pears, the tree must be planted in 

 ground which is neither cold nor damp, nor in a poor exposure. 



LXVIII. PEAR TREE, with medium-sized smooth oblong green autumn fruit. 

 SUCRE- VERT. (PL XXXIV.) 



This is a vigorous pear tree. It's grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. It's 

 very fruitful & bears its fruit in clusters. 



The shoots are thick, slightly bent at each node, speckled, very deep red-brown, 

 and green beneath the stems. Sometimes they're gray when the tree is grafted on wild 

 stock. 



The buds are small, flat, triangular and lie against the branch. Their stems are flat. 



The leaves are very large, oblong, 



