evenly to eye, a little uneven. Colour, dull green with 

 dusky russet in patches, changing to pale yellow. 

 Flesh, yellowish, tender, melting and deliciously per- 

 fumed. Eye, nearly closed in a slight, ribbed basin. 

 Stem, short, stout, woody, almost on surface. Growth, 

 vigorous, upright, spreading ; fertility moderate. Leaf, 

 long oval, little upfolded, down hanging, regularly 

 shallow serrate, turns pale yellow. Origin, raised by 

 Major Esperen at Malines about 1830. A valuable late 

 variety, deserving a wall. It is ready for use when it 

 turns yellow in March. It makes a largish tree. 



BERGAMOTTE D'HEIMBOURG. Verger III., 159. 

 G. Heimbourg's Bergamotte. Dessert, October, small, 

 to medium, 2j by 3, conical, even. Skin, smooth. 

 Colour, yellowish green with a little russet especially 

 round eye. Flesh, white, melting, very juicy, very 

 sweet, delightfully perfumed. Eye large, open but very 

 irregular, almost on level. Stem, rather long and 

 slender in a slight cavity generally on one side of fruit. 

 Growth, medium ; fertility moderate. Leaf, oval, up- 

 folded, deeply serrate, down hanging. Origin, raised 

 by Vans Mons and first fruited in 1847, and was dedicated 

 by Bivort to M. Heimbourg, president of the Phil- 

 harmonic Society of Brussels. This fruit is quite of 

 first quality, but its cropping in this country leaves 

 something to be desired. 



Bergamotte de Paques : see Easter Benrre. 

 Besi de Chaumontel : see Chaumontel. 



BEURRE ALEXANDRE LUCAS. Rev. Hort. 1875, 

 150. Exhibition and Dessert, November to January, 

 large, 3^ by 4, round conical, even. Colour, pale green 

 changing to yellow, marked with distinct russet dots, 

 taking a red flush in favourable seasons. Flesh, white, 

 melting, very highly perfumed. Eye, small, open in a 

 slightly irregular basin. Stem, medium, stout in a 

 narrow russet cavity. Growth, vigorous, with long 

 arched shoots, fertility moderate. Leaf, upfolded, long 



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