232 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Its skin is grayish. It turns yellow when the fruit matures and is scattered with 

 reddish spots. 



Its flesh is semi-soft, usually not gritty & leaves no residue. 

 The juice is slightly musky & very good. 



The seeds are short & wide. They very frequently fail to develop. 

 This pear ripens in October, November, & December. 



CI. PEAR TREE with large, longer, pale green winter fruit. 

 CHAMP-RICHEd'Italie. 



This is a vigorous tree. It's grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are stout, long, & strong. They're bent at each node and speckled with 

 very tiny reddish spots that aren't very noticeable. 



The buds are triangular, wide, flat, and free of the branch. Their stems are thick 

 and swollen above & below the eye. 



The leaves are large, round, flat, and finely denticulate. They're three inches four 

 lignes long and two inches eight lignes wide. Their petioles are seven lignes long. 



The flowers are sixteen lignes in diameter. Their petals are almost round and 

 slightly concave. 



The fruit is big, long, two inches seven lignes in diameter by three inches six 

 lignes high. The most enlarged part is about halfway along its length. The top end doesn't 

 decrease much in size. The eye is quite large & is set in a wide & not very deep 

 indentation. The end near the stalk diminishes considerably in size without the fruit being 

 gourd-shaped. It terminates in a point that's almost sharp, where the stalk inserts flush 

 with the fruit. The stalk is thick at its end, straight, and fourteen lignes long. 



