192 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The shoots are straight, stout, yellow-green on the side in the shade, flax gray on 

 the side in the sun, and flecked with large spots. On quince trees they're usually reddish. 



The buds are big, rounded, long, very sharply pointed, a deep red-brown, and very 

 free of the branch. Their stems are thick near the tip of the shoot but flat along the rest of 

 it. 



The leaves are broad & beautiful, three inches three lignes long and two inches 

 two lignes wide. They terminate in a point that's narrower at the stalk than it is at the 

 other end. They're folded into a boat-shape and are attached to the branch by a petiole 

 seven to nine lignes long. The denticulation on the margins is very fine, very sharp, & not 

 very deep. 



The flowers are eighteen lignes in diameter. The petals are wide, becoming 

 narrower near the tip and are concave spoonlike. 



The fruit is large, two inches seven lignes in diameter by two inches ten lignes 

 high. Frequently there are some that are very big, three inches in diameter & three inches 

 three lignes high. It's pyriform, very much enlarged at its top end where there's a large 

 cavity with an eye, usually small, set at the bottom. At the end near the stalk the fruit is 

 still quite large & it doesn't terminate in a narrow point. The stalk is brown, frequently 

 recurved, thicker at its end than at its origin, thirteen lignes, & sometimes two inches, 

 long. 



Its skin is smooth & delicate, a beautiful red on the side in the sun and yellow on 

 the shaded side when the fruit is ripe. Sometimes there are brown spots on the red & tan 

 ones on the yellow. 



Its flesh is semi-buttery, tender, very delicate, not gritty, and slightly yellowish. 



The juice is very sweet in areas that are warm & dry. 



The seeds usually are very small and most often fail to develop. 



