194 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



This pear ripens in March & April & sometimes keeps until May. So it's much 

 later than the Royale d'hiver. Several gardeners confuse it with that one. 



LXXIII. PEAR TREE with large, long green autumn fruit. 

 VERTE-LONGUE. MOUILLE-BOUCHE. 



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

 does better on the wild stock. It likes loose & warm soil. 



The shoots are of average length & thickness. They're bent at each node, greenish 

 on the shaded side, reddish on the sun side, and covered with a thin, pearl gray epidermis. 



The buds are thick, rounded, quite long, pointed, free of the branch and held by a 

 stout stem. 



The leaves are almost round, two inches eight lignes long and two inches one 

 ligne wide. The denticulation on the margins is large & not very deep. The petiole is nine 

 lignes long. The middle leaves are oblong, more finely & very lightly denticulate. Their 

 stalks are eighteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter and fully open. The petals are rounded 

 and flat. The tips of the stamens are big. The sections of the calyx are very long & 

 narrow. Many of the flowers have seven petals. 



The fruit is big. It's two inches six lignes in diameter & three inches high. It's 

 long, sometimes pyriform and sometimes turbinate. The most enlarged part is about 

 midway along its length. It gets smaller at the top end, where the eye is set in the center 

 of a small indentation. It diminishes in size even more at the end near the stalk. The stalk 

 is slender, two inches nine lignes long, & inserts flush with the fruit, which terminates 

 unevenly in a blunt point. 



