660 THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



Vermilion des Dames. See Bellissime d'Automne. 

 Vermilion d'Espagne. See Bellissime d'Hiver. 



VERTE LONGUE (Mouille Bouche ; Mouille Bouche d'Automne ; 

 New Autumn). Fruit, medium sized ; pyriform, tapering both towards 

 the eye and the stalk. Skin, smooth and shining, pale green, becoming 

 yellowish about the stalk as it ripens, and covered with numerous 

 minute dots. Eye, open, with long acute spreading segments, set in a 

 shallow basin, surrounded with several knobs or prominences. Stalk, 

 an inch and a half long, not depressed. Flesh, white, melting, very 

 juicy, sugary, and richly flavoured. 



A fine old French dessert pear ; ripe in October. 



Verte Longue d'Hiver. See Echassery. 



VERTE LONGUE PANACHEE (Verte Longue Suisse ; Culotte de 

 Suisse ; Bergamotte Suisse Longue ; Poire Brodee ; Poire Tulippee). 

 This is a striped variety of Verte Longue, and differs from the original 

 in having the wood and the fruit striped with green and yellow bands, 

 and sometimes with a reddish tinge in the yellow. The leaves are also 

 occasionally striped with yellow. 



VERULAM (Black Beurre; Buchanan's Sjjring Beurre; Spring 

 Beurre}. Fruit, large; obovate, resembling the Brown Beurre in 

 shape. Skin, dull green, entirely covered with thin russet on the 

 shaded side, and reddish brown thickly covered with grey dots on the 

 side next the sun. Eye, open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, an inch 

 long, slender, inserted in a small cavity. Flesh, crisp, coarse-grained, 

 rarely melting, unless grown against a wall in a warm situation, which 

 is a position it does not merit. 



An excellent stewing pear ; in use from January till March. When 

 stewed the flesh assumes a fine brilliant colour, and is richly flavoured. 



VESOUZIERES. Fruit, small ; roundish, flattened at both ends. 

 Skin, smooth, of a uniform lemon-yellow colour, marked with a few 

 patches of russet. Eye, open, set in a wide shallow basin. Stalk, 

 upwards of an inch long, slender, woody, and inserted in a wide and 

 uneven cavity. Flesh, rather coarse-grained, melting and juicy, sweet, 

 but without any remarkable flavour. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in October and November. 



Viandry. See Ecliassery. 



VICAR OF WINKFIELD (Belle Andrienne ; Belle de Bern; Belle 

 Helo'ise; Bon Papa; Cornice de Toulon; Cure; Monsieur de Clion; 

 Gucillette d'Hiver; Monsieur le Cure; Grosse Allongee ; Paternoster; 

 Pradel). Fruit, very large ; pyriform, frequently one-sided. Skin, 

 smooth, greenish yellow, with a faint tinge of red on the side next the 

 sun, strewed with numerous grey russet and green dots. Eye, small 

 and open, with long spreading leaf-like segments, set in a shallow basin, 



