216 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



LXXXIX. PEAR TREE with very large, sharply cone-shaped autumn fruit, light yellowish green 

 on one side to bright red on the other. 



BON-CHRETIEN [BARTLETT] d* Espagne. (PL XLVI.) 



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



The shoots are longish, slender, dark gray-green, reddish on the side in the sun & 

 at the tip, very speckled, quite straight at the end, and bent where they originate. 



The buds are very short & are free of the branch. Their stems are thick. 



The leaves are thirty-four lignes long, twenty-five lignes wide, and bend in 

 different directions. The midrib curves downward at the tip of the leaf. The margins are 

 not very denticulate, and the denticulation is uneven & not very deep. The petioles are 

 about twelve or thirteen lignes long. 



The flowers are very open and are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval 

 and slightly concave like a spoon. The tips of the stamens are pink. 



The fruit is very big, three inches in diameter & four inches high. It has a slightly 

 inclined pyramidal shape & is very slightly truncate at the tip. Beyond its most enlarged 

 part, located about a third the way along its height, the fruit gets smaller toward the top. 

 The eye is small and is set in quite a wide & deep indentation bordered by bumps. Some 

 of them extend as far as the largest diameter of the fruit, others only to much above that, 

 & form ridges that aren't as high as those on the winter Bartlett. Along its remaining two 

 thirds the fruit progressively diminishes in size almost uniformly up to the stalk. The 

 stalk is thirteen lignes long & inserts at a slight slant into a narrow & not too deep 

 indentation bordered by several bumps. This pear looks a lot like the winter Bartlett, 



