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three inches seven lignes long, two inches nine lignes wide, and finely and not very 

 uniformly & deeply denticulate. The middle leaves are very finely & uniformly 

 denticulate. The petiole is two inches four lignes long. 



The flowers are the largest of all pear trees flowers. They're twenty-one lignes in 

 diameter. The petals are ten lignes long, eight lignes wide, and concave spoonlike. 



The fruit is big, three inches five lignes high & two inches eight lignes in 

 diameter. It's shaped somewhat like a gourd. In the center at the top, which is slightly 

 elongated, there's a narrow & not very deep indentation where the eye is situated. The 

 end at the stalk is extremely blunt. It terminates in several large bumps & deep creases. 

 The stalk, about two inches long, inserts in the middle of them. The stalk is thick and 

 fleshy, sometimes from its origin to beyond half its length. The entire fruit is angular & 

 knobby like the winter Bartlett. 



Its skin is smooth, very light green and speckled with dark green spots. It turns 

 yellow when the fruit ripens. 



Its flesh is white, tender or semi-crisp. 



The juice is plentiful and sweet. 



The seeds are very long and a very light brown. 



It ripens around the beginning of September. 



XCI. PEAR TREE with medium-sized, conical, quince-shaped yellow to somewhat red sitmmer 

 fruit. 



BON-CHRETIEN [BARTLETT] d'ete musqu£.(/7. XLVIIL) 



This is a delicate tree even when grafted on wild stock. It's never grafted on the 

 quince tree. 



The shoots are long, average in thickness, quite straight, very spotted, reddish 

 brown in color, tending toward purple or gray-brown. It's lighter on the shaded side. 



