PYRUS, PEAR TREE. 241 



CIX. PEAR TREE with barely medium-sized, smooth, round, yellow autumn fruit. 

 LANSAC. DAUPHINE. SATIN. (PL LVII.) 



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



The shoots are of average size flecked with large greenish gray spots on the 

 shaded side and have a light reddish tint on the side in the sun. 



The buds are big. rounded, long, very pointed, and free of the branch. Their stems 

 are thick. 



The leaves are three inches six lignes long and two inches three lignes wide. They 

 fold along the central vein and are very finely but barely perceptibly denticulate. The 

 midrib curves downward; the petioles are thirteen lignes long. 



The flowers are very open and seventeen lignes in diameter. The petals are flat, 

 very long & narrow. 



The fruit is medium-sized, twenty-three lignes in diameter & twenty-four high. 

 Sometimes it's round but more often it gets a little smaller toward the ends. The eye is set 

 in a not very deep indentation; frequently it's almost even with the fruit. The stalk is 

 thick, seven to ten lignes long and plump at its origin. Sometimes it inserts flush with the 

 fruit and sometimes into a small indentation. 



Its skin is smooth & yellow. 



Its flesh is juicy. 



The juice is sweet; it has a pleasant flavor & is enhanced with a slight fragrance. 



The seeds usually fail to develop. 



This pear ripens at the end of October & sometimes keeps until January. 



