PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 223 



The buds are big, pointed, somewhat flat and not very free of the branch. Their 

 stems aren't very prominent. 



The leaves are large, three inches ten lignes long and two inches two lignes wide. 

 The midrib curves downward and the leaf folds along it. On most of the larger leaves the 

 margins are slightly ruffled & are smooth at the edge; the middle leaves are finely, 

 uniformly, & quite deeply denticulate. The petioles are sixteen lignes long. 



The flowers are fully open and sixteen lignes in diameter. The petals are almost 

 flat and trowel-shaped. Some have a little red at their tip. The tips of the stamens are 

 pink. 



The fruit is very big, two inches nine lignes in diameter & three inches long. It's 

 quite compressed at its top end where the eye, which is medium-sized, is at the bottom of 

 an indentation. The end near the stalk doesn't decrease much in size. The stalk is brown, 

 thick, and usually slightly enlarged at the end near the fruit. It's ten or eleven lignes long 

 and sometimes inserts almost flush with the fruit but more frequently into the bottom of a 

 cavity that's quite deep & edged with a few bumps. The fruit is more turbinate than it is 

 pyriform. It bears some resemblance to the winter Bartlett, especially when it's elongated. 

 There's often a small groove visible along one side of it that extends from the top to the 

 stalk. 



Its skin is very thin, green speckled with small brown spots, & turns slightly 

 yellow when the fruit ripens. It's lightly streaked with red on the side in the sun. 

 Sometimes it has a small powdery or whitish eye. 



Its flesh is slightly yellow, very delicate, buttery, juicy, delicious and not gritty. 



The juice is very sweet, sugary & flavorful. 



The seeds are brown, pointed, of average size, and often fail to develop. 



