BAXTER'S PEARMAIN. Dessert or culinary, Dec- 

 ember to February, medium, 2f by 2 J, roundish conical, 

 slightly flattened. Colour, pale yellow with red-brown 

 flush and stripes. Flesh, yellowish, tender, pleasantly 

 acid. Eye, open in a moderately deep and wide basin, 

 which is slightly plaited. Stem, short, rather slender 

 in an even basin. Growth, moderate ; very fertile. 

 Leaf, long, dark green, much upfolded, sharply serrate. 

 Origin, a Norfolk variety, introduced to notice by Mr. 

 G. Lindley, in 1821. It is rather too acid for some 

 palates. 



Bayfordbury Pippin : see Golden Pippin. 



BEACHAMWELL. Ronalds, p. 27. G., Samling 

 von Beachamwell. (Motteux's Seedling.) Dessert, Dec- 

 ember to March, small, 2j by 2, flattened oval, regular. 

 Colour, green-yellow, faint stripes with russet. Flesh, 

 crisp, pale yellow, sugary. Eye, open in a shallow 

 basin. Stem, medium in a narrow cavity. Growth, 

 medium ; fertile. Leaf, medium, ovate, faintly crenate. 

 Origin, raised at Beachamwell in Norfolk, probably 

 about the middle of the eighteenth century. It is 

 now almost out of cultivation. 



BEAUTY OF BATH. Card. Chron., 1900, p. 145. 

 Dessert, early August, small to medium, 2j by if, 

 round, much flattened, even. Colour, pale yellow, 

 red flush and stripes, a little rough to touch. Flesh, 

 tender, yellowish, often stained with red, sweet and 

 pleasant. Eye, closed, tips of the segments reflexed, 

 in a round even, rather deep basin. Stem, stout, half 

 inch in a rather shallow and even cavity. Growth, 

 moderate ; very fertile. Leaf, round oval, dark green, 

 nearly flat, undulating, curved serrate. Origin, raised 

 at Bailbrook, Batheaston, near Bath, and brought to 

 notice by Messrs. Cooling, about 1864. This is a very 

 attractive fruit, which is now largely grown for market 

 purposes. Its chief fault is premature dropping which 

 leads many growers to place straw beneath the trees 

 to prevent injury. 



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