870 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



eovered with very large pale-coloured specks. Flesh, crisp, juicy, and 

 sweet. 



Ripe in March and April. 



Badham's. See Brown Beurre. 



BALOSSE. — Fruit, two inches and three-quarters long and the 

 same in diameter ; roundish turbinate. Skin, rough, thick, of a dark 

 green colour, shaded with brown, but as it ripens it becomes yellow, 

 and is then coloured with red. Eye, large and open, with long leafy 

 segments, set in a wide and rather shallow basin. Stalk, an inch 

 long, slender, and woody, attached without depression, and with a 

 fleshy swelling on one side of it. Flesh, yeUow, crisp, sugary, and 

 perfumed. 



A cooking pear, grown extensively in the neighbourhood of Chalons- 

 sur-Marne, where it has been cultivated for nearly three centuries as 

 the great resource of the farming and working class. It is an excellent 

 pear when cooked, and keeps remarkably well till March, when in some 

 seasons it may be used in the dessert. 



The tree is an immense bearer, one tree producing, on an average, 

 twenty-four bushels of fruit. 



Bancrief. See Crawford. 

 Banneux. See Jaminette. 



BAEBE NELIS. — Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, and 

 two inches and a half high ; obovate, even and regular in its outline. 

 Skin, smooth, pale green, and changing to yellowish green as it ripens, 

 the surface strewed with small dots. Eye, large and open, with rather 

 long segments, and set level with the surface. Stalk, an inch and a 

 quarter long, very fleshy, with several fleshy folds at the base, where it 

 unites with the fruit. Flesh, quite white, juicy, very sweet, and with 

 a sort of honied juice. 



A very inferior fruit unless eaten just when gathered, or rather be- 

 fore it ripens on the tree, in the third week of August. If allowed to 

 hang tUl it is quite ripe it soon decays, and in a few days becomes a 

 bag of rottenness. 



It was raised by M. Gr^goire, of Jodoigne, in 1848, and was named after a 

 member of the family of Nelis, of Malines. 



BARLAND. — Fruit, small and obovate. Skin, duU green, consider- 

 ably covered with grey russet. Eye, large and open, with erect seg- 

 ments, and placed even with the surface, and without any depression. 

 Stalk, half an inch long, and slender. 



This is a very fine old perry pear. The specific gravity of its juice 

 is, according to Mr. Knight, 1070. 



Mr. Knight says : " Many thousand hogsheads of perry are made from this fruit 

 in a productive season ; but the perry is not so much approved by the present, as 

 it was by the original planters. It however sells well whilst new to the merchants, 

 who have probably some means of employing it with which the public are not ac- 



