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Its skin in light green and is scattered with spots & small gray flecks. 



Its flesh is white, semi crisp, and is not gritty. Normally there are only four seed 

 compartments in this fruit; each one contains two long slender light brown seeds that are 

 curved at the tip. 



In December & in January this pear is very good stewed & in compotes. 



CII. PEAR TREE with very large, mostly blunt pyriform late fruit, partly pale, partly dark red. 

 CATILLAC. (PL LVlll Fig. 4.) 



This is a very vigorous pear tree. It's better grafted on wild stock than on quince 

 trees. 



The shoots are stout, not very long, bent at each bud, flax-gray, reddish below the 

 stems and not very spotted. 



The buds are big, flat, and sort of stuck to the branch. Their stems are thick. 



The leaves are large, oval, pointed at both ends, very lightly & unevenly 

 denticulate but more evenly & deeply so toward the tip. They're four inches long and two 

 inches six lignes wide. The petioles are fourteen lignes long. 



The flowers are beautiful & very large; they're twenty lignes in diameter. The 

 petals are concave, nine lignes long and eight lignes wide. The tips of the stamens are 

 light purple, almost pink. The pedicels, the calyx, its divisions, and the undersides of new 

 leaves are covered with a thick white down. 



The fruit is very big, usually nearly gourd-shaped, sometimes pyriform. 



