PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 205 



LXXXI. PEAR TREE with large, oblong lemon yellow autumn fruit. 



DOYENNE. BEURRE blanc. S. MICHEL. BONNE-ENTE. (PL XLIIL) 



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

 very fruitful. 



The shoots are thick & strong, bent at each node, and are light gray on wild stock. 

 On quince trees they're red & have some green spots below the buds and are speckled. 



The buds are rounded, thick at the base, short, pointed and very free of the branch. 

 Their stems are very thick & swollen. 



The leaves are big & beautiful. They're three inches three lignes long, two inches 

 three lignes wide, uniformly & not very deeply denticulate (the middle leaves are finely 

 denticulate) and they bend downward. The petioles are fifteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are Iongish & are concave 

 like a spoon. 



The fruit is very large, two inches eleven lignes high and the same in diameter. 

 More generally the diameter is two inches nine lignes & the height is two inches eleven 

 lignes. It's almost round in shape. The eye is small & is set in a not very wide & not very 

 deep indentation. The stalk is very thick, six lignes long, and inserts into the bottom of a 

 narrow cavity frequently bordered with bumps & quite deep creases. At times this pear 

 takes on a slightly oblong shape. Its fullest part is at a third of its length from the top. The 

 remaining two thirds continue to diminish in size toward the stalk with the result that that 

 end is only fourteen or fifteen lignes in diameter. 



Its skin is greenish and turns lemon yellow on ripening. On espalier it becomes 

 bright red on the side toward the sun. 



