238 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



on the side in the sun. The shaded side & the midrib are white. 



The flowers are wide open and seventeen lignes in diameter. The petals are long, 

 narrow, and almost flat. 



The fruit is very big. It's shaped somewhat like a barrel. Its diameter at the middle 

 is three inches two lignes, at the end with the eye twenty-three & at the end at the stalk 

 eighteen lignes. The eye is located in a very deep cavity bordered by small creases or 

 grooves. The stalk, an inch long, also inserts into a cavity that's very deep & bordered by 

 small creases. This is a beautiful fruit & its circumference is uniformly round along its 

 entire length. 



Its skin is green on the shaded side and turns yellow when the fruit ripens. The 

 side in the sun is a beautiful bright red. 



Its flesh is very white; it's a little gritty around the seeds. 



The seeds are black, long & flat and cramped for space. 



This lovely fruit ripens in February & March. Beyond embellishing a dessert, it's 

 delicious stewed & in compotes. 



CVII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized, somewhat gourd-shaped smooth winter fruit, golden 

 yellow on one side and slightly reddish on the other. 



NAPLES. (PL LVI.) 



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



tree. 



The shoots are thick, quite short, very full of buds that aren't entirely opposite, 

 bent at each bud, gray mingled with brown and very speckled. 



The buds are big, shaped like a very pointed cone, and not very free of the branch. 

 They have thick stems. 



The leaves are long, narrow, and not denticulate. Some have wavy margins, others 

 curl downward. 



