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This pear, with a name that well befits its extraordinary size & beautiful colors, 

 keeps until May. It's much better than the Catillac when cooked under bell glass. One 

 even can prepare quite good compotes from it. 



CIV. PEAR TREE with very large, blunt pyriform winter fruit, green with reddish spots. 

 LIVRE. 



This is a very vigorous tree when grafted on wild stock, but it won't succeed at all 

 on the quince tree. 



The shoots are thick, very bent at each node, gray-green, slightly powdery, with a 

 light reddish tinge on the side in the sun & at the tip. They're not very spotted. 



The buds are short, flattened, broad at the base, not very pointed and free of the 

 branch. Their stems are thick. 



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

 They fold differently, are frequently wrinkled next to the midrib, and are finely & not 

 very deeply denticulate. The stalk is an inch long. 



The flowers are very open, sixteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval, flat, 

 oblong & narrow. 



The fruit is very big, three inches eight lignes high. On one side its diameter is 

 three inches seven lignes^ & on the other it's three inches three lignes. It's flattened that 

 way along its length. When the fruit is in good condition it's pyriform, blunt at the end 

 near the stalk, quite round at the top & at its middle. The top end is rounded. The eye is 

 small & is set at the bottom of a deep cavity about fifteen lignes wide. The end near the 

 stalk diminishes in size almost uniformly & comes to a very blunt point. At the center 

 there's a deep & narrow indentation with a border that's 



