PEARS. 535 



A second-rate pear, with coarse flesh, which becomes mealy in 

 November. 



A seedling of Major Esperen, of Malines, which, after his death, went into the 

 possession of M. Berckmans, who named it after one of his sous. It first fruited 

 in 1847. 



Bon Papa. See Vicar of Winkfteld. 



BON PARENT. Fruit, medium sized; obtuse pyriform. Skin, 

 smooth, lemon -yellow, covered with dots of grey russet, which are 

 very thick round the eye and the stalk, where they form patches. 

 Eye, open, with short, erect, fleshy segments, set in a very shallow 

 basin. Stalk, long, fleshy, and pale brown, obliquely inserted on one 

 side of the axis. Flesh, yellowish white, coarse-grained, half -melting, 

 sweet, and pleasantly perfumed. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in October. 



It was raised in 1820 by M. Simon Bouvier, of Jodoigne. 



Bonne d'Avranches. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 

 Bonne Ente. See White Doyenne. 



BONNE D'EZEE (Belle de Zees; Bonne de Zees; Bonne de 

 Haies; Brockworth Park). Fruit, large, two inches and a quarter 

 wide, and three inches and a quarter long ; pyramidal. Skin, straw- 

 coloured, with a tinge of green, and thickly marked with traces of 

 brown russet interspersed with a few green dots. Eye, open, with 

 long linear segments. Stalk, stout and fleshy, an inch long, and 

 obliquely inserted. Flesh, white, coarse-grained, and inclining to 

 gritty, half-melting and juicy, with an agreeable perfume. 



This is only a second-rate pear, the texture of the flesh being coarse ; 

 ripe in October. Mr. R. D. Blackmore says " it is a very poor thing, 

 and useless at Teddington." 



This was discovered as a wilding at Ezee, near Loches, in the Tourraine, in 1788, 

 and was first brought into notice by M. Dupuy, a nurseryman at Loches. A tree 

 growing against a wall at Brockworth Park, near Gloucester, produced fruit of 

 large size and showy appearance, and it was propagated for sale by Messrs. J. C. 

 Wheeler & Son, of Gloucester, who sold it under the name of Brockworth Park. 

 It was represented as being a seedling raised at that place, one of the parents being 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



Bonne de Haies. See Bonne d'Ezee. 



Bonne de Kienzheim. See Vallee Franche. 



Bonne de Longueval. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



Bonne Louise d'Avranches. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



Bonne Malinaise. See Winter Nelis. 



Bonne de Malines. See Winter Nells. 



Bonne de Noel. See Fondante de Noel. 



