198 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The leaves are medium-sized, two inches seven lignes long & two inches wide. 

 The midrib bends downward. The denticulation on the margins is large & not very deep. 

 It's finer on the middle leaves. The petiole is ten lignes long. 



The flowers are thirteen lignes in diameter. The petals are much wider near the 

 calyx than they are at the other end. The tips of the stamens are light purple. 



The fruit is medium-sized. It's two inches in diameter & two inches eight lignes 

 high. It has an oblong oval shape and is pointed near the stalk which is thick, curved, 

 thirteen to fifteen lignes long and inserts flush with the fruit. This pear is similar in shape 

 to the preceding one. 



Its skin is smooth and gray-green spotted with red. 



Its flesh is tender, semi-buttery, and juicy. But it turns mushy quickly. 



The juice is plentiful & has a pleasant enhanced flavor. 



This pear ripens in September. It's sought after in years when there's a shortage of 

 good pears in that season. 



LXXVII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized long pyriform lemon-yellow winter fruit scattered 

 over with yellow spots. 



ANGLETERRE d'hiver. 



The winter Angleterre is a medium-sized pear, elongated-pyriform in shape, about 

 two inches three lignes in diameter by three inches two or three lignes high. It's very 

 rounded at the top where the quite open eye is situated in the middle of a flattening or 

 wide indentation that's smooth and not very concave. The other end extends uniformly 

 (sometimes it looks a little like a gourd) into a not very truncate point 



