. British trees. Trees. THE PEAR TREE. 607 is seen ; it is of the palest green and coated with wool that is nearly white. As the leaves unroll, the more brilliant green of the silky upper surface is seen. The fully developed leaf has a pale greenish- yellow stalk nearly as long as itself The leal-blade is hardly at all puckered, and the two halves either lie quite flat or form a wide V with the mid-rib in the centre. Except on vigorous upright shoots, when they point upwards, the leaves usually droop. The glossy upper surface of the young foliage becomes dulled as the year goes on, the undersi
. British trees. Trees. THE PEAR TREE. 607 is seen ; it is of the palest green and coated with wool that is nearly white. As the leaves unroll, the more brilliant green of the silky upper surface is seen. The fully developed leaf has a pale greenish- yellow stalk nearly as long as itself The leal-blade is hardly at all puckered, and the two halves either lie quite flat or form a wide V with the mid-rib in the centre. Except on vigorous upright shoots, when they point upwards, the leaves usually droop. The glossy upper surface of the young foliage becomes dulled as the year goes on, the underside keeping its paler green. The mid-rib which bisects the dark blade is light green, but the smaller veins which cover the under-side with an intricate pattern are dark-coloured, though they show up paler when the sun shines through the leaf. The leaves are arranged singly on the shoot, but the shoot is often so much dwarfed that they appear to radiate from a circle round the bud. A pair of stipules at the base of each leaf have usually withered before the flowers are set. Pear Tree leaves are about two or three inches long, slightly serrated and sharply pointed. THE FLOWER AND FRUIT. The flower-head lies in the cup of scroll-like leaves, supported by a short downy main-stalk of pale-green. From different points on the main-stalk spring other thinner stalks, each bearing a floret. The central stalk of these secondary ones continues the direction of the main-stalk, and is the longest, so that the group of florets has a hemisperical out- line. Before the florets expand, the petals form a white hall, set round with pointed sepals, and below these is the swollen calyx floret shows five pure white petals, and is. tube. The expanded. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cole, Rex Vicat, b. 1870; Kempe,
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