PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 203 



Its flesh is semi-crisp, quite delicate & succulent. 



The juice has quite a nice flavor though sometimes it's a little tart. 



The seeds are long & slender. 



This pear ripens at the beginning of September. 



LXXX. PEAR TREE with small, almost pyriform summer fruit, a rich <£ beautiful red on one 

 side and lemon-yellow marked with reddish streaks on the other. 



BELLISSIME d'ete. SUPREME. (PL XL1L) 



This is a vigorous tree; it's grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are short, thick, quite straight, reddish brown shading to deep purple 

 and flecked with very tiny, almost indiscernible spots. 



The buds are flat, triangular, and not very free of the branch. Their stems are flat. 



The leaves are quite large & beautiful. The midrib bends downward slightly, 

 especially at the tip. The denticulation is barely discernible. It's fine on some leaves but 

 widely spaced on others. The leaves are three inches long and two inches one ligne wide. 

 The petioles are twenty-two lignes long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are long & narrow. They're 

 wider near the unguis than they are at the other end. 



The fruit is small, only twenty lignes in diameter by twenty-four lignes high. The 

 top is very round. The eye is quite large and lies even with the fruit or in the middle of a 

 flattening rather than in an indentation. The other end diminishes considerably in size 

 though it doesn't terminate in a sharp point; hence this pear is nearly pyriform. The stalk, 



