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protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, white, rather coarse-grained, 

 half buttery and very juicy, sweet, and slightly perfumed. 



This is only a second or third-rate pear, and not worth cultivation. 

 It is ripe in the beginning'of December. 



BELLE JULIE {Alexandrine Helie). — Fruit, medium sized ; long 

 obovate, even and regularly shaped. Skin, rather rough to the feel 

 from the large russety specks with which it is covered. The colour is 

 dull brown, somewhat like that of the Brown Beurre ; and on the side 

 next the sun it has a warm reddish brown glow, like a gipsy's blush. 

 On the shaded side, where the skin is not covered with russet, the 

 green ground colour shows through. Stalk, an inch long, brown, and 

 woody, inserted on one side of the fruit under a fleshy lip. Eye, 

 clove-like, wide open, with long segments, and set almost on a level 

 with the surface of the fruit. Flesh, yellowish, tender, buttery, melt- 

 ing, and very juicy. The juice is rich, sugary, and vinous, with a fine 

 perfume. 



A most delicious pear ; ripe in the end of October. This ought to 

 be more extensively cultivated. 



BELLE DE L'ORIENT.— Fruit, very large, four inches and three- 

 quarters long and three and a quarter wide ; pyramidal like a large 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey, and very similar to it in colour, being bright 

 red next the sun, and covered with large freckles. Eye, small, set in a 

 deep cavity. Stalk, upwards of an inch long, deeply inserted. Flesh, 

 tender, melting, sweet, and juicy. 



Eipe in October, and soon decays. 



Belle Lucrative. See Fondante d'Automne. 

 Belle de Luxembourg. See Hampden's BergamOt, 

 Belle de Noel. See Fondante de Noel. 

 Belle Noisette. See Bellisdme d'Hiver. 

 Belle de Prague. See Belle de Thouars. 



BELLE EOUENNAISE. — Fruit, large, four inches and a quarter 

 long and three inches wide ; pyramidal in shape, and evenly formed. 

 Skin, smooth, dark green, very finely dotted with grey dots, and 

 marked and streaked with grey spots; as it ripens it becomes of a 

 brighter colour. Eye, half open, with erect greenish segments placed 

 in a shallow and pretty wide basin. Flesh, tender, buttery, and 

 melting, very juicy, sugary, and perfumed. 



A first-rate pear ; ripe in November and December. 

 It was raised by M. Boisbunel, of Eonen, in 1845, and produced fruit in 1856. 



Belle Sans Pepins. See Hampden's Bergamot. 



BELLE DE THOUARS {Belle de Thouarse ; Coulon St. Mark; 

 Belle de Prague ; Saint Marc ; Belle de Troyes). — Fruit, large ; long, and 

 pyramidal, iout inches and a half high and two inches and three quarters 



