PEARS. 495 



Belle Lucrative. See Fondante cVAutomne. 

 Belle de Luxembourg. See Hampden's Bergamot. 



BELLE MOULINOISE. A somewhat oblong pear of large size ; 

 greenish skin, considerably covered with rough russet ; a long stalk 

 and large eye. The flesh is half melting, juicy, and perfumed. 



A second-rate pear ; in use from January till March. 



Belle de Noel. See Fondante de Xoel. 

 Belle Noisette. See Bellissime d'Hiver. 

 Belle de Prague. See Belle de Thouars. 



BELLE ROUENNAISE. Fruit, large, four inches and a quarter 

 long, and three inches wide ; pyramidal in shape, and evenly formed. 

 Skin, smooth, dark green, very finely dotted with grey dots, and 

 marked and streaked with grey spots ; as it ripens it becomes of a 

 brighter colour. Eye, half open, with erect greenish segments, placed 

 in a shallow and pretty wide basin. Flesh, tender, buttery, and 

 melting, very juicy, sugary, and perfumed. 



A first-rate pear ; ripe in November and December. 



It was raised by M. Boisbunel, of Rouen, in 1845, and produced fruit in 1856. 



Belle Sans Pepins. See Hampden's Bergamot. 



BELLE DE SEPTEMBRE (Grosse de Septembre}. A large 

 roundish ovate pear, pale yellow dotted with russet, and with a 

 reddish brown cheek on the side next the sun. The flesh is half 

 melting, juicy, but with a somewhat astringent flavour. 



Only a second-rate or inferior pear ; ripe during September and 

 October. 



BELLE DE THOUARS (Belle de Thouarsi ; Coulon St. Marc; 

 Belle de Prague ; Saint Marc ; Belle de Troyes). Fruit, large, long, and 

 pyramidal, four inches and a half high, and two inches and three-quarters 

 wide ; uneven and undulating in its outline. Skin, somewhat rough, at 

 first of a bronzy olive, changing to ferruginous brown or cinnamon brown, 

 shaded with violet, strewed with brown dots. Eye, open, with spread- 

 ing segments, placed in a deep depression. Stalk, long and straight, 

 an inch and a quarter long, inserted in a line with the axis of the fruit, 

 and surrounded with small bosses. Flesh, white, half melting, sugary, 

 and briskly flavoured. 



A cooking pear ; in use in the end of November and December. 



Belle de Thouarse. See Belle de Thouars. 

 Belle de Troyes. See Belle di Thouars. 

 Belle Vierge. Sea Jargonelle. 

 Belle de Zees. See Bonne d'E^ee. 



