512 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



A large, handsome, and very excellent pear ; ripe in December. The 

 tree is hardy, forms a handsome pyramid, and is a good bearer. Mr. 

 Blackmore says it is a great bearer and of fine appearance, but very 

 low quality. 



BEURRE BAUD. Fruit, medium sized, obovate. Skin, lemon- 

 yellow, thickly mottled with cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye, very 

 small. Stalk, an inch long, stout, and somewhat fleshy. Flesh, 

 tender, melting, and juicy, and with a sweet and agreeable, but not 

 remarkable flavour. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in October, when it becomes mealy and rots 

 at the core. 



BEURRE BEAUCHAMPS (Bergamotte Beauchamps ; Beurre Bie- 

 mont; Hagliens d 1 Hirer ; Henkel d'Hiver of Leroy, not of Van Mons). 

 Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three-quarters wide, and three 

 inches high ; roundish obovate, regular, and handsome. Skin, 

 greenish yellow, very much covered with large russet specks, like the 

 belly of a toad, and a red blush next the sun. Eye, small and open, 

 set in a rather shallow depression. Stalk, stout, thickened at both 

 extremities, nearly an inch long, curved, and inserted in a round 

 cavity. Flesh, rather firm, half-melting, coarse-grained, juicy, rather 

 sweet, and with a pleasant perfume. 



A good but not first-rate pear, in shape and colour not unlike White 

 Doyenne ; ripe in the beginning of November. 



There are two distinct varieties called Beurre Beauchamps. That of Bivort, 

 which he says he finds in Van Mons' catalogue of 1823, and which is no doubt the 

 same as No. 92 in the supplement to the first series, under the name " Beauchamps : 

 par son patron." This is the fruit described above. And also by Diel, who says, 

 " it is very like Beurre Blanc, reddish on the sunny side, and strongly dotted." It 

 is also the Beurre Beauchairtp of my friend M. Leroy, with whom I am sorry I 

 cannot agree in regarding Henkel d'Hiver as a synonyme of this. See Henkel 

 d'Hiver. The other variety is the Beurre Beauchamps of Dittrich, which he is 

 careful to state " has no red on the sunny side," and which he describes as a seed- 

 ling of Van Mons. Van Mons himself attributes the origin of Bivort's variety to 

 M. Beauchamp, and it is quite possible that he raised the other and dedicated it 

 to the same person, subsequent to the publication of his catalogue, in which there 

 is no mention made of a Beurri Beauchamps. 



Beurre Beauchamps. See Bergamotte Cadette. 

 Beurre Beaumont. See Besi Vaet. 



BEURRE DES KEGUINES. Fruit, below medium size, two 

 inches and a half wide, and two high ; round and Bergarnot- shaped, 

 even and regular in its outline, somewhat larger on one side of the 

 axis than the other. Skin, entirely covered with a crust of dark cinna- 

 mon brown russet. Eye, very large and closed, with long pointed 

 segments, set in a wide shallow plaited basin. Stalk, three-quarters 

 of an inch long, stout, a little curved, and inserted in a round cavity. 



