PEARS. 63? 



BOUVIER BOURGMESTRE. Fruit, medium size, two inches and 

 three-quarters wide, and three inches and three-quarters high ; oblong- 

 obovate, even in its outline. Skin, lemon-yellow, speckled all over with 

 cinnamon-coloured russet, but particularly so towards the stalk and the 

 eye, where it forms a sort of crust, which is sometimes quite rough. 

 Eye, half open, with incurved segments, set in a shallow depression. 

 Stalk, an inch and a half long, inserted on the end of the fruit, which 

 is not tapering but abrupt. Flesh, yellowish, buttery, and melting, 

 rather gritty towards the core, with a fine sprightly rich and vinous 

 juice, and a fine aroma. 



A first-rate pear ; ripe in the end of October. 



Raised by M. Bivort from seed sown in 1824, and the tree first fruited in 1842. 

 It was named by him in honour of M. Simon Bouvier, burgomaster of Jodoigne, 

 in Belgium. 



Braddick's Field Standard. See Marie Louise. 



BRANDES ST. GERMAIN. Fruit, below medium size, two inches 

 wide, and three inches high ; pyramidal, even and regular in outline. 

 Skin, covered almost entirely with a coat of thin cinnamon-coloured 

 russet, exposing here and there mottles and spots of the yellow ground ; 

 the whole surface strewed with large rough russet specks. Eye, small 

 and open, with short, erect segments, very slightly depressed. Stalk, 

 half an inch to three-quarters long, inserted obliquely without depres- 

 sion. Flesh, yellowish, half-melting, not very juicy, with a brisk, sweet 

 flavour, and slight perfume. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in the end of November, when it becomes 

 mealy. 



Raised at Louvain l>y Van Mons, and named in honour of Dr. Brandes, Professor 

 of Chemistry at Salzuffeln. 



Bretonneau. See Beurre Bretonneau. 

 Brilliant. See Flemish Beauty. 



BRITISH QUEEN. Fruit, large; obovate-pyriform, the outline 

 undulating and bossed. Skin, smooth, and almost entirely covered 

 with a thin coat of cinnamon-coloured russet, but on the side next the 

 sun it has a blush of bright rosy crimson. Eye, rather small, with 

 short, narrow segments, and considerably depressed. Stalk, about an 

 inch long, very stout, and sometimes inserted obliquely in a round, 

 narrow cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, very fine-grained, buttery, and 

 melting, rich, sugary, and having the flavour of Marie Louise, coupled 

 with that peculiar briskness which is found in the Windsor. 



A first-rate pear, which ripens in the beginning of October. It is, 

 however, of varying merit, as it is very apt in some soils to decay 

 rapidly and treacherously in the centre, while there is no indication of 

 decay at the surface. Mr. R. D. Blackmore says that at Teddington 

 it is not worthy of its name. 



This was raised by Mr. Thomas Ingram, late gardener to Her Majesty at Frog- 

 more, and was first distributed by Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough, in 1863. 



