BELLE DE PONTOISE. G., Schoener von Pontoise. 

 Culinary, December to February, large, 3j by 2j, flat, 

 irregular. Colour, pale yellow-green, red flush, and 

 broad broken stripes. Flesh, tender, white, sweetish 

 and juicy. Eye, open in a rather deep and wide basin. 

 Stem, very long in an unusually wide and deep russet 

 cavity. Growth, vigorous ; very fertile. Leaf, very 

 large, undulating, very coarsely serrate. Origin, 

 raised at Pointoise, from a seed of Emperor Alexander, 

 by M. Remy, and introduced in 1879. A very useful 

 variety, keeping firm and acid, but rather tender and 

 best for garden use. 



Belle de Rome : see Rome Beauty. 

 Belle des Vennes : see Wellington. 

 Belle du Bois : see Gloria Mundi. 

 Belle Fille : see Reinette Grise. 

 Bell's Scarlet: see Scarlet Pearmain. 

 Belmont : see Manks Codlin. 

 Bennet's Defiance : see Fearn's Pippin. 



BENONI. Her. Pom., 47. Dessert, mid-Septem- 

 ber, small, 2j by 2j, oval, regular. Colour, pale 

 yellow, with crimson flush, and stripes. Flesh, tender, 

 yellow, aromatic. Eye, small, a little open in a fairly 

 deep even basin. Stem, short and rather slender 

 in a deep even cavity. Growth, moderate, makes a 

 roundish tree ; moderately fertile. Origin, raised at 

 Dedham, Mass., U.S.A., about the middle of the eigh- 

 teenth century. Introduced to England about 1870. 

 A very good early fruit. 



BEN'S RED. Card. Chron., 1899. p. 261. Dessert, 

 September, medium, 2j by 2, flat, a little irregular. 

 Colour, pale yellow, almost entirely covered with darkest 



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