286 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



nurseryman near Lille, Fr. The parent tree first fruited in 1848. Fruit large, long, assum- 

 ing generally that of the Calebasse, bossed, irregular; color golden-yellow, sown all over 

 with greenish-gray dots and streaked with fawn around the calyx; flesh exceedingly white 

 and fine, semi-melting, juicy, somewhat gritty around the core; juice abundant, sugary, 

 lacking much perfume but delicate; first; Oct. and Nov. 



Beurre Baltet Pere. I. Guide Prat. 109. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:47, fig- 5°4- 

 1881. 3. Garden 52:356, 397- 1897. 



Baltet Senior. 4. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 171. 1889. 



Obtained by Baltet Brothers, Troyes, Fr., about 1865. Fruit large, turbinate, 

 yellowish -green ; flesh very fine, melting, juicy and richly flavored; first, " there are few 

 pears of better quality." {Gard. 52:356.) Oct. and Nov. 

 Beurre Baud. I. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:1, fig. 193. 1879. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 512. 1884. 



Attributed to Van Mons. Fruit medium to small, obovate, lemon-yellow, thickly 

 mottled with cinnamon-colored russet; flesh whitish, sometimes veined with yellow, fine, 

 buttery, melting; juice abundant and sugary, agreeable but not a remarkable flavor; hardly 

 first-rate; Oct. 



Beurre Beauchamp. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 456. 1857. 2. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 

 1, 113. %■ 55- 1866-73. 



Attributed by Van Mons in his catalog of 1823 to M. Beauchamp. Fruit medium 

 to large; globular, bossed, pale yellow, dotted with fawn, strongly carmined on the side 

 next the sun; flesh fine, white, excessively melting; juice sugary, perfumed, having a 

 buttery flavor, delicate and agreeable; first; Nov. 

 Beurre Beaulieu. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 673. 1869. 



Fruit globular-pyriform, greenish-yellow, very much russeted; flesh whitish, rather 

 coarse, buttery, melting, vinous; good; Oct. 

 Beurre Beek. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:69, fig. 515. 1881. 



Whether this variety originated in the outskirts of Beek, a town of the Rhine, or 

 whether it came from the neighborhood of the town of Beek in the Pays-Bas is uncertain. 

 Fruit medium, globular-ovate, obtuse, bright green, sown with numerous strongly marked 

 gray-green dots, russeted at summit and base; flesh white, melting; juice abundant and 

 sugary; third-rate for the table but quite useful for the kitchen; Sept. 

 Beurre des Beguines. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:314, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:133, 

 fig. 163. 1878. 



A posthumous gain of Van Mons at Louvain. Its first fruit was gathered in 1844. 

 Fruit below medium size; oblate, more enlarged on one side than the other; skin entirely 

 covered with a crust of cinnamon-brown russet; flesh greenish -white, rather coarse, very 

 juicy and sweet, richly flavored, with perfume of the Seckel; quite a good pear; Oct. 

 Beurre Bennert. 1. Ann. Pom. Beige 5:19, fig. 1857. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:315, 

 fig. 1867. 

 Obtained from the seed beds of Van Mons at Louvain subsequent to his death in 

 1842. It first bore fruit in 1846. Fruit medium, globular-obtuse-pyriform, sides uneven; 

 color golden-yellow, striped, veined and stained with fawn, dotted with fawn around the 

 stem and washed with reddish-brown on the side next the sun; flesh white, fine, melting 



