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the new Belgian fruits, which he sent me in 1864. It was raised by M. Alex. 

 Bivort in 1849 at Great St. Remy, near Fleurus in Belgium. 



Belle Gabrielle. See Ambrette d'Hiver. 



Bellegarde. See Gilogil. 



Belle Heloi'se. See Vicar of Winkfield. 



Belle Henriette. See Henriette. 



Belle de Jersey. See Uvedale's St. Germain. 



BELLE ISLE D'ANGEKS. Fruit, roundish oval, three inches 

 long, and two inches and a half wide. Skin, entirely covered with a 

 coat of greenish dark brown russet, which is very fine and smooth to 

 the feel, and covered with large grey dots, except on the shaded side, 

 where the greenish yellow ground colour is exposed, and this also is 

 marked with large russet dots. Eye, small and open, with short, stout, 

 erect segments placed in a shallow and round basin. Stalk, woody, 

 about an inch long, and inserted in a small round cavity, with a fleshy 

 protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, white, rather coarse-grained, 

 half buttery and very juicy, sweet, and slightly perfumed. 



This is only a second or third-rate pear, and not worth cultivation. 

 It is ripe in the beginning of December. 



BELLE JULIE (Alexandrine Helie). Fruit, medium sized, long 

 obovate, even and regularly shaped. Skin, rather rough to the feel 

 from the large russety specks with which it is covered. The colour is 

 dull brown, somewhat like that of the Brown Beurre ; and on the side 

 next the sun it has a warm reddish brown glow, like a gipsy's blush. 

 On the shaded side, where the skin is not covered with russet, the 

 green ground colour shows through. Stalk, an inch long, brown, and 

 woody, inserted on one side of the fruit under a fleshy lip. Eye, 

 clove-like, wide open, with long segments, and set almost on a level 

 with the surface of the fruit. Flesh, yellowish, tender, buttery, melt- 

 ing, and very juicy. The juice is rich, sugary, and vinous, with a fine 

 perfume. 



A most delicious pear ; ripe in the end of October. This ought to 

 be more extensively cultivated. Mr. Blackmore says it is a vast 

 cropper, and of fair quality at Teddington. 



Raised by Dr. Van Mons, and first fruited in 1842. It is named after his 

 granddaughter, Julie Van Mons, the daughter of General Van Mons. 



BELLE DE L'ORIENT. Fruit, very large, four inches and three- 

 quarters long, and three and a quarter wide ; pyramidal, like a large 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey, and very similar to it in colour, being bright 

 red next the sun, and covered with large freckles. Eye, small, set in a 

 deep cavity. Stalk, upwards of an inch long, deeply inserted. Flesh, 

 tender, melting, sweet, and juicy. 



Kipe in October, and soon decays. 



