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and so covered with yellow-brown or tan spots that its yellow color is practically 

 invisible. 



Its flesh is white and not at all gritty. It's tender & almost juicy when it's ripe. 



The juice is plentiful, sweet, and has no bitter nor uncultivated taste. 



The seed compartments are extremely small & contain very thin & very elongated 

 seeds (five lignes long by two lignes wide), most of which usually fail to develop. 



This pear, quite nice when eaten fresh for those who aren't too fussy about taste, is 

 delicious when stewed & is far preferable to the Catillac & Livre pears. It starts to ripen 

 in December & keeps until March. This tree is too vigorous to survive when grafted on 

 the quince tree. 



CVI. PEAR TREE with very large, barrel-shaped winter fruit, partly lemon yellow, partly 

 beautiful red. 



TONNEAU. (PL LVIII, Fig. 5.) 



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



The shoots are very thick, long, & strong. They're slightly bent at each node, 

 speckled with very tiny spots, slightly powdery, flax-gray on one side and a pale lilac 

 color on the other. 



The buds are large, flat, and lie against the branch. Their stems are broad & thick. 



The leaves are large, four inches three lignes long and two inches five lignes 

 wide. They're widest closer to the stalk than they are at the other end, which terminates in 

 a long & sharp point. The margins are smooth. The stalk is twenty lignes long. It's a light 

 red color 



