BELLE DES ARBRES. Culinary, till June, very 

 large, 3 J by 5, irregular oval, flat sided and much bossed. 

 Skin, smooth. Colour, grass green with slight russet. 

 Flesh, breaking, firm, white, very juicy. Eye, closed or 

 open in an irregular basin. Stem, very long, generally 

 curved with always a fleshy ring at base. Growth, 

 vigorous ; fertility good. Origin, introduced by M. 

 Houdin of Chateandun, France, about 1880. This fruit 

 which resembles Uvedales St. Germain is a fine late 

 cooking fruit. As it always has the accent on the " e " 

 in French works I presume " Arbre*s " is a place name 

 and not as usually written " arbres " (trees). 



Belle des Bois : see Flemish Beauty. 

 Belle de Flandres : see Flemish Beauty. 



BELLE GUERANDAISE. Dessert, large, 3} by 4, 

 round oval, even. Colour, pale yellow almost covered 

 with brown smooth russet. Flesh, white, melting, 

 perfumed, of excellent quality. Eye, open in a shallow 

 depression or often on level. Stem, medium, stout, in 

 a slight uneven cavity. Growth, upright spreading ; 

 fertility, fair. Leaf, small, pointed oval, slightly up 

 upfolded, entire, turning very pale yellow, falling early. 

 Origin, raised by M. Dion near Guerande (Loire), from 

 a seed of Doyenne du Cornice and introduced by M. 

 Bruant of Poitiers in 1895. This is a large and fine 

 fruit and if sufficiently fertile in this country it should 

 be widely grown. 



BELLE JULIE. Fl. and Pom. 1863,128. (Alexandre 

 Helie.) Dessert, October to November, medium, 

 2 i by 3i, oval, even. Colour, entirely covered with 

 golden brown russet with a slight flush. Flesh, pale 

 yellow green, very melting and delicious. Eye, wide 

 open and clove like in a shallow depression. Stem, 

 stout, medium length, often oblique. Growth, moderate, 

 upright spreading ; fertility good, Leaf, rather small, 

 oval, regularly serrate, turns dull brown red, hangs late. 

 Origin, raised by Van Mons and named after his grand- 

 daughter Mile. Julie Van Mons. It first fruited in 1842. 



