196 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



LXXV. PEAR TREE with large, pointed-oval ash-gray (or green or red) autumn fruit. 

 BEURRE. [BUTTER PEAR]. (PL XXXVIII.) 



This is a very fruitful pear tree and it adapts well to all kinds of soil and to all 

 styles, on espalier, bush tree, fan-shape, in open ground, & in almost all exposures. It's 

 grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are stout, bent at each node, and speckled with very tiny spots. They're 

 a reddish to light brown on the sun side and covered with a gray epidermis on the shaded 

 side. 



The buds are large at their base, not very elongated, free of the branch, and held 

 on thick stems. 



The leaves are large, oblong, wide & rounded near the stalk, unevenly & not very 

 deeply denticulate. The midrib curves downward. The stalks are eighteen lignes long. 

 The leaves are three inches eight lignes long & two inches six lignes wide. 



The flowers are fifteen-&-a-half lignes in diameter. The petals are seven lignes 

 long and four lignes wide. They narrow considerably near the calyx. Many flowers have 

 six & seven petals. 



The fruit is very big, sometimes two inches eleven lignes in diameter & three 

 inches nine lignes high. It's elliptical or oval-oblong in shape & pointed. It decreases 

 uniformly & not noticeably in size toward the stalk where it comes to a point. The stalk is 

 an inch long, somewhat plump at its origin, thick at its other end and inserts there flush 

 with the fruit. The top is rounded as it gets smaller. The eye is quite deeply indented there 

 in a wide & smooth recess. 



Its skin is thin, smooth, green or gray or spotted with red on the side in the sun. 

 These color distinctions, the green, gray, or red, do not represent 



