PLATE XLIV. 
i. CITRON DES CARMES. 
[Syn : Madeleine ; Gros St. Jean ; Early Rose Angle .] 
This Pear takes its name “ Citron des Cannes ” from its being first seen in the garden of 
the Carmelites at Paris ; and it has received its name “ Madeleine ” from the fact of its 
ripening about St. Magdelene’s day, July 22nd. 
Description. —Fruit : below medium size, obovate. Skin : smooth and thin, at first bright 
green but changing to yellowish green, and with a faint tinge of brownish red next the sun, strewed 
with grey dots. Eye : small and closed, set in a shallow depression. Stalk : an inch and a half to 
two inches long, inserted without depression by the side of a fleshy prominence. Flesh : pale 
yellowish white, delicate, very juicy and melting, with a sweet, pleasant, refreshing flavour. 
An excellent early Pear; ripe in July and August. It should be gathered before it is ripe, 
as it then keeps better. On the tree it soon becomes mealy. 
The tree is very hardy and bears abundantly ; but its fruit is liable to crack on the surface. 
It succeeds well as a standard on the pear stock, for the orchard; but for the garden, it should be 
grown on the quince stock. 
