170 PEAKS. 



aroma, the flavour being very mucli like tliat of the 

 Cliaumontel. 



A first-rate dessert pear, ripe in December and January. 

 Though not richly flavoured, it is so juicy and refreshing 

 as to be like eating sugared ice. 



BISHOP'S THUMB. Fruit; large and oblong. Skin 

 yellowish-green, covered with large russety dots, and 

 with a rusty red colour on one side. Eye small and 

 open, with long refiexed segments. Stalk one inch long, 

 fleshy at the base, and obliquely inserted. Flesh greenish- 

 yellow, melting and juicy, with a rich sugary and vinous 

 flavour. 



An old-fashioned and very excellent dessert pear, ripe 

 in October. The tree is hardy, an abundant bearer, and 

 succeeds well as a standard. 



Black Aehan. See AcJtan. 



Black Bess. See AcJtan. 



Black Beurre. See Verulam. 



BLACK WORCESTER (Parkinsons Warden; Pound 

 Pear). Fruit large and obovate. Skin green, entirely 

 covered with rather rough brown russet, and with a dull 

 red tinge next the sun. Eye small and open. Stalk an 

 inch long. Flesh hard, crisp, coarse-grained, and gritty. 



A stewing pear, in use from November till February. 



BLOODGOOD. Fruit medium sized, turbinate, inclining 

 to obovate. Skin yellow, strewed with russety dots and 

 russet network. Eye open, with stout segments. Stalk 

 obliquely inserted. Flesh 3 r ellowish-white, buttery and 

 melting, sweet, sugary, and aromatic. 



An American pear of good quality, ripe earl} r in August. 

 The tree bears well, and, being so early, is well worth 

 growing. 



Bo de la Cour. See Conseiller de la Cour. 



Bolivar. See Uvcdale's St. Germain. 



Bonaparte. See Napoleon. 



Bon Chretien d' Amiens. See Catillac. 



Bon Chretien d'Espagne. See Spanish Bon Chretien. 



BON CHRETIEN FONDANTE. Fruit large, oblong, and 

 regularly formed. Skin green, covered with a consider- 

 able quantity of russet, and marked with numerous 

 russety dots 'on the shaded side, but covered with dark 



