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CXI. PEAR TREE with medium-sized smooth pyriform red-fleshed summer fruit. 

 SANGUINOLE. 



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



The shoots arc brown and powdery. 



The leaves are large, almost round, but wider than they are long and slightly 

 powdery. They're flat, though a bit wrinkled at the margins where only a few not very 

 conspicuous denticulations are visible. Some streaks on the leaf & a few of the small 

 veins are red. The leaves are three inches long & three inches four lignes wide. The 

 petioles are thick and two inches three lignes long. 



The flowers are sixteen lignes in diameter. The petals are oval and concave like a 

 spoon. Some are colored red at the margins. The calyx is reddish. 



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

 It's pyriform, slightly compressed at the top where the eye, which is very big, is situated 

 at the bottom of a large cavity. The stalk is eighteen lignes long. At its insertion there's a 

 groove that appears to separate it from the fruit. 



Its skin is smooth, green, speckled with very tiny spots, gray on the shaded side 

 and red on the side in the sun. 



Its flesh is red, coarse & quite tasteless. 



This pear ripens in August. It's not worth cultivating except as a curiosity. 



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