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were to come to a point, it would be turbinate in shape. It often looks a lot like the 

 Crasanne. It's twenty-eight lignes in diameter & the same in height. The eye is set in a 

 smooth and not very deep indentation. The stalk, thick and straight, five or six lignes 

 long, inserts into an indentation with practically smooth edges. At times this fruit is rather 

 oblong, fuller at the end near the stalk, & and in that case it's shaped more like the 

 Doyenne. On vigorous trees it's not unusual to obtain fruit that's three inches in diameter 

 by three-&-a-half inches high. These large pears usually are gourd-shaped at the end near 

 the stalk. The other end is slightly elongated, & the eye is situated flush with a quite 

 prominent bump or elevation. 



Its skin is dark green and very speckled with extremely tiny gray spots. It turns 

 somewhat yellow when the fruit is ripe. 



Its flesh is very white, tender, and has no granules. 



The juice is sweet & extremely good. 



The seeds are large, black, oblong, flat, and pointed. The axis of the fruit is 

 hollow & the seed compartments are large. 



The fruit ripens in October & November. This tree thrives only in open ground. 



LXXXIII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized rather long, smooth, lemon yellow autumn fruit. 

 BEZI de Montigny. (PL XL/ V. fig. 6.) 



This tree is grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are long, of medium thickness, slightly bent at the nodes, green and 

 speckled. 



The buds are big, pointed and reddish. They lie against the branch and are 

 attached to thick stems. 



The leaves are round, two inches seven lignes long, two inches four lignes wide, 

 and quite flat. The margins are almost smooth; the denticulation is barely noticeable. The 

 veins 



