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CXVI. PEAR TREE with medium-sized pyriform smooth shiny winter fruit, partly lemon yellow 

 and partly a beautiful & clear red. 



CHAT-BRUSLE. 



This is a medium-sized pear, pyriform and slightly oblong. The top is quite 

 rounded & the eye is set in a not very concave indentation. The stalk is ten to twelve 

 lignes long, thick at the end, and the same color as the fruit. It inserts at a slight slant into 

 the tip of the fruit, which sometimes is blunt or seemingly divided into two small bumps. 

 It's twenty-two lignes in diameter & two inches seven lignes high. 



Its skin is very smooth & shiny. It's a beautiful light though bright red that's paler 

 when it's close to the parts that never had been exposed to the sun & that are lemon 

 yellow. 



Its flesh is delicate, not gritty, and takes on a beautiful red color when stewed. 



The seeds are black and very full. 



This handsome pear is suitable for making delicious compotes in February & 

 March. 



The leaves of the tree are bright green, very finely denticulate, small, longish, and 

 terminate in a sharp point. 



The pear commonly called the Chat-brule, is intermediate in shape, color, & size 

 between the Messire-Jean & the Martin-sec. Its flesh is tender, dry, often mealy & gritty. 

 It ripens in October & November. 



CXVII. PEAR TREE with medium-sized, almost pyriform, late yellow fruit. 

 SAINT-PERE or SAINT-PAIR. 



This is a medium-sized, almost pyriform pear. It's twenty-six lignes in diameter & 

 twenty-eight lignes high. 



