206 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Its flesh is very buttery & very good in dry years & when it hasn't become mealy 

 from being overripe. 



The juice is very sugary & sweet. Sometimes it's enhanced with a lot of flavor. 



Some of the seeds are wide, others are long. 



This pear ripens in October. It's a very beautiful fruit. It's hard to catch it just 

 when it's at its best because it passes that stage very quickly. 



LXXXII. PEAR TREE with large, rounded-turbinate autumn fruit, deep green turning golden 

 yellow. 



BEZI de la Motte. (PL XLIV. Fig. 5.) 



This pear tree has thorny branches. It's grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are of average strength, very spotted and bent at each bud. They're 

 light gray tending somewhat to green on the side in the shade and gray with a very light 

 reddish tinge on the side in the sun. 



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

 stems aren't very prominent. 



The leaves are long & narrow, only twenty lignes wide by three inches two lignes 

 long. They terminate in a very sharp point. On some of them the midrib curves 

 downward; on others the margins are ruffled and wavy. Their denticulation is quite 

 delicate & not very deep. The petioles are seven lignes long. The smaller leaves look like 

 the very small leaves on willow trees. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. Their petals are long & concave like a 

 spoon. 



The fruit is big and very enlarged at the top end. If the other end, which 

 diminishes considerably in size, 



