PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 191 



Its flesh is white, semi-crisp, & quite delicate. There are a few granules next to the 

 seeds. 



The juice has a slightly tart flavor which is not unpleasant. 



The seeds are very brown, quite full, and not very elongated. Their compartments 

 are large. 



The fruit ripens in February & is notable in that season. 



LXX. PEAR TREE, with large, turbinate, partly green, partly red very late fruit. 

 POIRE a Gobert. 



This is a large, top-shaped fruit. It's thirty lignes in diameter by thirty-three lignes 

 high. The eye, which isn't big, is set in a not very deep indentation. The stalk is quite 

 thick, average in length, and inserts flush with the fruit. 



Its skin is a striking red on the side in the sun and green on the shaded side. It 

 turns yellow when the fruit ripens. 



Its flesh is very white, semi crisp, and musky. 



The seeds usually abort & their compartments are small. 



The fruit keeps until June, which is an advantage. 



LXXI. PEAR TREE, with large pyriform smooth winter fruit, partly lemon yellow, partly a 

 pleasant red 



ROYALE d'hiver. [Translator's note: a pear possibly brought from Constantinople for 

 Louis XIV.] (Pi XXXV.) 



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

 graft forms a thick swelling at its insertion point covering the stock that's too weak for 

 such a vigorous tree. 



