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and then the shoots are apt to canker ; but it requires a wall to have 

 the fruit in perfection. The colour of the fruit is very subject to 

 change, according to the soil and stock upon which it is grown, and 

 thus have arisen the different synonymes of Red, Grey, Brown, and 

 Golden Beurro. Many old gardeners maintain that the Grey and 

 Brown Beurre are wholly distinct, but in such cases the Brown Beurre 

 referred to is the Angleterre, whilst the Grey Beurre is the variety 

 here described. The fruit are large, grey, and long, and richly 

 flavoured, when grown upon a vigorous pear stock even in dry light 

 soils, but smaller and of redder colour when grown on the quince even 

 if placed in rich deep soil. 



Tins very old pear is mentioned by the earliest French authors, and it has been 

 cultivated in this country for upwards of two centuries, for it is mentioned by Rea 

 in 1655 as Boeure de Koy, a good French pear of a dark brown colour, long form, 

 and very good taste." 



Buchanan's Spring Beurre. See Verulam. 



BUFFUM. Fruit, medium size, two inches and a half wide, and 

 two inches and three-quarters high ; obovate, blunt at the stalk, even 

 and regular in its outline. Skin, rather rough, with dark brown russet ; 

 on the side next the sun it has a bright orange cheek, surrounded with 

 dull rusty red, which extends to the greenish yellow on the shaded side. 

 Eye, very small, set in a rather deep basin. Stalk, stout and woody, 

 inserted in a deep and wide cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, coarse- 

 grained, not juicy, rather sweet, and with a marked flavour of anise. 



A pear of ordinary quality ; ripe in October. 



This was raised in America and originated in Rhode Island, where it is esteemed 

 a variety of high merit. I have never found it so in this country. 



Bujalouf. See Virgouleuse. 

 Bujiarda. See Summer Thorn. 

 De Bunville. See Martin Sire. 

 De Bure. See Bellissime d'Hiver. 



BUTT PEAR. Fruit, small; turbinate or roundish obovate, 

 smooth and even on the surface. Skin, a uniform lemon-colour, 

 strewed with minute russety dots. Eye, open, set even with the 

 surface. Stalk, half an inch long, slender, inserted on the apex of the 

 fruit. Flesh, yellowish, coarse-grained and granular, with a rough and 

 acid taste. 



This is now much grown about Ledbury, where it is called " the 

 coming pear for perry." 



De Cadet. See Bergamotte Cadette. 



Cadet de Bourdeaux. See Bergamotte Cadette. 



Cadette. See Bergamotte Cadette. 



