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Its flesh is white and not very delicate. The juice is quite plentiful & somewhat fragrant 

 but often slightly tart. The seeds are black. It ripens around the end of July & is 

 comparable in quality to the other pears of that season. It's twenty-five lignes in diameter 

 & twenty-six lignes high. Sometimes the height exceeds the diameter by more than that. 



CXIV. PEAR TREE with medium-sized summer fruit, long, gourd-shaped, green to ash-gray 

 marked with whitish spots. 



GRISE-BONNE. 



The Grise-bonne is medium-sized, long and somewhat gourd-shaped. It's twenty- 

 two lignes in diameter & two inches six lignes high. The top is quite rounded, & the eye 

 is set flush with the fruit. The other end decreases considerably in size & terminates in a 

 blunt point. The stalk is thick, nine to twelve lignes long and inserts at a slant into a small 

 indentation. 



Its skin is gray green and very speckled with whitish spots. Some parts have a red 

 tinge. 



Its flesh is juicy and somewhat buttery. It turns mealy quickly. 



The juice is sweet & flavorful. 



The fruit ripens at the end of August. 



CXV. PEAR TREE with medium-sized smooth winter fruit, pointed at both ends, lemon yellow on 

 one side and red on the other. 



DONVILLE. 



This pear is average-sized. It's oblong, twenty-two lignes in diameter by thirty 

 lignes high. It gets smaller toward the top, where the eye 



