222 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



The fruit is a big elongated cone. It's two-&-a-half inches in diameter & two 

 inches nine lignes high. It bears little resemblance to the winter Bartlett with which 

 Merlet compares it in shape. It's more pointed near the stalk, it has no bumps on its 

 surface, & it's not at all gourd-shaped. Normally the top is quite round at its 

 circumference; sometimes it's a bit angular. The eye at times is almost flush with the fruit 

 and at times sunken into quite a deep cavity. The stalk, twelve to fifteen lignes long, also 

 sometimes inserts flush and sometimes into the bottom of an indentation. It's thick & 

 smooth. It's not unusual to find Marquise pears that are three inches in diameter by three 

 inches four lignes high. These large fruits generally are very enlarged at the middle, 

 diminish greatly in size toward the stalk, & terminate there in a not very elongated point 

 which is quite blunt or truncate. They are not conical in shape. 



Its skin is green and very speckled with spots that are darker green. It turns yellow 

 when the fruit ripens. Sometimes it takes on a very light tinge of red on the side in the 

 sun. 



Its flesh is buttery & juicy. 



The juice is sugary, sweet and sometimes a little musky. 



The seeds are big and terminate in a sharp point. 



It ripens in November & December. Since the tree is so vigorous, care must be 

 taken to prune it. 



XCIV. PEAR TREE with very large conical, practically turbinate winter fruit, green on one side 

 to pale red on the other. 



COLMART. POIRE MANNE. (PL L.) 



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

 The shoots are of average length & thickness, straight, a yellow wood-color on 

 one side, somewhat brown on the other and very finely speckled. 



