220 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XCII. PEAR TREE with large, bent blunt conical golden yellow Slimmer fruit darkened with 



spots, 



MANSUETTE. SOLITAIRE. (PL LVIIL Fig. L) 



This pear tree bears some resemblance to the winter Bartlett. It does better grafted 

 on the quince tree than on wild stock. 



The shoots are long, of medium thickness, bent at each node, flattened & 

 somewhat grooved below the stems. They're dull gray, sometimes with a very light 

 reddish tinge and speckled with very tiny spots. 



The buds are round, very short and quite free of the branch. Their stems are very 

 thick & enlarged above & below the eye. 



The leaves are medium-sized. They're three inches long, twenty-six lignes wide, 

 and come to a point. The margins are wavy. Some are quite finely & noticeably 

 denticulate, but others very little so. The veins are almost as prominent on the top of the 

 leaf as they are underneath it. The central vein curves downward & folds to form a 

 groove. The stalk is thick & fourteen lignes long. 



The flowers are eighteen lignes in diameter and are wide open. The petals are oval 

 and almost flat. The tips of the stamens have little color. 



The fruit is long, stout and not very uniform in shape. Its shape is very close to 

 that of the winter Bartlett but less strewn with bumps & irregularities. It's two inches 

 seven lignes in diameter & three inches five lignes high. The stalk is thick & quite full; 

 it's twelve to fourteen lignes long. It usually inserts at a slant and flush with the fruit 

 where there's a bulge & several narrow creases at the origin. This end of the fruit is blunt 

 & much less thick than the other end; 



