230 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



XCIX. PEAR TREE with small, long, yellow somewhat reddish winter fruit, pointed at both ends. 

 SAINT- AUGUSTIN. (PL LVlll Fig. 3 J 



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



Its shoots are small, not very bent at the nodes, spotted, greenish-yellow on the 

 shaded side and a very light reddish color on the side in the sun. 



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

 Their stems are thick. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are concave like a spoon and 

 trowel-shaped. 



The leaves are three inches three lignes long and two inches wide. They're quite a 

 deep green & shiny on top, whitish on the outside, and curve downward. They're very 

 finely & not very deeply denticulate and are attached by very long stalks that are two-&- 

 a-half to three inches long. 



The fruit is small, long, and enlarged at the middle. It diminishes in size toward 

 the top where the eye is set even with the fruit. It diminishes even more toward the other 

 end but doesn't come to a point. The thick stalk is an inch long and inserts among several 

 bumps; there is no indentation. It's two-&-a-half inches high & twenty -two lignes in 

 diameter. 



Its skin is lightly tinged with red on the side in the sun. The other side turns a 

 lovely light yellow when the fruit matures. It's speckled & sometimes spotted with 

 brown. 



Its flesh is generally firm. 



The juice is musky & not very plentiful. 



The seeds are longish, black, and very full. 



This pear ripens in December & January. As just described above, & when in 

 loose & dry soil, the fruit is only of average quality. But in good soil 



