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that's a little more substantial, it's much larger, very tasty, and its juice is fragrant & 

 plentiful. La Quintinye, evidently having seen it in different soils, didn't believe it was the 

 same pear. 



C. PEAR TREE with large, longer ash-gray autumn fruit marked with red spots. 

 PASTORALE. MUSETTE d'automne. (PL LV.) 



This pear tree is better grafted on wild stock than on the quince tree. 



Its shoots are long, of medium thickness, slightly bent at each bud, light brown, a 

 little powdery, and speckled with very tiny spots. 



The buds are triangular, slightly flattened, and lie against the branch. Their stems 

 are wide & prominent. 



The leaves are two inches nine lignes long, twenty-two lignes wide, finely & not 

 very deeply denticulate. Their petioles are fifteen lignes long. The middle leaves are long. 

 Their midrib bends downward. Their margins are finely & quite deeply denticulate, and 

 their petioles are twenty-two lignes long. 



The flowers are fifteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval and slightly 

 concave. The tips of the stamens are red mixed with a lot of white. 



The fruit is long & full, two inches six lignes in diameter & three inches nine 

 lignes high. It's enlarged around the middle. The top end diminishes in size & the eye is 

 situated there almost flush with the fruit. The end near the stalk is elongated & diminishes 

 in size quite uniformly. The tip isn't pointed, but instead it's rounded, & the stalk inserts 

 there flush with the fruit. It's about thirteen or fourteen lignes long, thick, plump at its 

 origin & at times has a thick spiral pad around it. 



