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Beurre Biel 



aerick Adrien Diel, a distinguished German pomologist. Its 

 vigour, productiveness and beauty, have made it already a 

 general favourite with our planters. It is in every respect, a 

 first rate fruit in favourable situations, but on very young trees 

 and in cold soils, it is apt to be rather coarse and astringent. 

 The tree has long, very stout, twisting branches, and is uncom- 

 monly vigorous. Young shoots dark grayish-brown. 



Fruit large, varying from obovate to obtuse-pyriform. Skin 

 r;ither thick, lemon yellow, becoming orange yellow, marked 

 with large brown dots, and marblings of russet. Stalk an inch 

 to an inch and three quarters long, stout, curved, set in a rather 



