PEARS. 489 



covered with very large pale-coloured specks. Flesh, crisp, juicy, and 

 sweet. 



Ripe in March and April. 



AYLTON RED. Fruit, small ; roundish turbinate. Skin, covered 

 with rough russet dots. Eye, small and open, set in a shallow depres- 

 sion. Stalk, nearly an inch long, straight, inserted in a small round 

 cavity. 



A Herefordshire perry pear which is growing rapidly into popularity. 



Badham's. See JJroini 



BALOSSE. Fruit, two inches and three-quarters long, and the 

 same in diameter ; roundish turbinate. Skin, rough, thick, of a dark 

 green colour, shaded with brown, but as it ripens it becomes yellow, 

 and is then coloured with red. Eye, large and open, with long leafy 

 segments, set in a wide and rather shallow basin. Stalk, an inch 

 long, slender, and woody, attached without depression, and with a 

 fleshy swelling on one side of it. Flesh, yellow, crisp, sugary, and 

 perfumed. 



A cooking pear, grown extensively in the neighbourhood of Chalons- 

 sur-Marne, where it has been cultivated for nearly three centuries as 

 the great resource of the farming and working class. It is an excellent 

 pear when cooked, and keeps remarkably well till March, when in some 

 seasons it may be used in the dessert. 



The tree is an immense bearer, one tree producing, on an average, 

 twenty-four bushels of fruit. 



Bancrief. See Crawford. 

 Banneux. See JmnincW: 



BARBE NELIS. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, and 

 two inches and a half high ; obovate, even and regular in its outline. 

 Skin, smooth, pale green, and changing to yellowish green as it ripens, 

 the surface strewed with small dots. Eye, large and open, with rather 

 long segments, and set level with the surface. Stalk, an inch and a 

 quarter long, very fleshy, with several fleshy folds at the base, where it 

 unites with the fruit. Flesh, quite white, juicy, very sweet, and with 

 a sort of honied juice. 



A very inferior fruit unless eaten just when gathered, or rather 

 before it ripens on the tree, in the third week of August. If allowed 

 to hang till it is quite ripe it soon decays, and in a few days becomes 

 a bag of rottenness. Mr. Blackmore considers it worthless at Ted- 

 ding ton. 



It was raised by M. Gregoire, of Jodoigne, in 1848, and was named after a 

 member of the family of Nelis of Malines. 



BARLAND. Fruit, small and obovate. Skin, dull green, con- 

 siderably covered with grey russet. Eye, large and open, with erect 



