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wide, uneven and undulating in its outline. Skin, somewhat rough, at 

 first of a bronzy oUve, changing to feiTuginous brown or cinnamon brown, 

 .shaded with violet strewed with brown dots. Eye, open, with spread- 

 ing segments, placed in a deep depression. Stalk, long and straight, 

 an inch and a quarter long, inserted in a line with the axis of the fruit, 

 and surrounded with small bosses. Flesh, white, half melting, sugary, 

 and briskly flavoured. 



A cooking pear, in use in the end of November and December. 



Belle de Thouarse. See Belle de Thouan. 

 Belle de Troyes. See Belle de TJiouars. 

 Belle Vierge. See Jargonelle. 

 Belle de Zees. See Bonne d'Ezee. 

 Bellissime. See Windsor. 



BELLISSIME D'AUTOMNE {Petit Certeau; Vermilion; Belle et 

 Bonne ; Poir des Dames ; Vermilion des Dames). — Fruit, medium sized, 

 three inches and a half long and two inches broad ; long pyriform in 

 shape. Skin, smooth and shining, of a pale straw colour where shaded ; 

 but where exposed to the sun it is covered with fine deep crimson with 

 stripes of the same colour round about the stalk, and the whole covered 

 with grey dots. Eye, considerably depressed in a wide and plaited 

 basin. Stalk, from an inch to an inch and a quarter long, fleshy at 

 the insertion where it is attached to the fruit without any cavity. 

 Flesh, white, crisp, and slightly gritty, juicy, sugary, and with an 

 aromatic flavour. 



An old French pear, which if grown against a wall becomes melting, 

 and may then rank as a good dessert fruit ; but as it does not merit 

 such a situation it is only fit in this climate to be cultivated as a 

 standard, and the fruit used for culinary purposes. It is ripe in the 

 end of October and beginning of November. 



The tree is a hardy, vigorous grower, and an abundant bearer. It 

 succeeds well as a standard either on the pear or quince. 



Bellissime d'Ete. See Bassin. 



Bellissime de Bur. See Bellissime d'Hu-er. 



BELLISSIME D'HIVEE {Teton de Venus; De Bare; Belle Noisette ; 

 Vermilion dJEspagne; Bellissime de Bur; Beurre de Bure). — Fruit, 

 very large, four inches wide and three inches and three-quarters high ; 

 roundish turbinate. Skin, smooth and somewhat shining, of a fine 

 deep green colour on the shaded side and brown where exposed to the 

 sun, but changing as it attains maturity by keeping to lemon-yellow 

 on the shaded sid6 and fine vermilion next the sun ; strewed all over 

 with large brown russet dots. Eye, large and open, set in a rather 

 deep basin. Stalk, an inch long, stout and somewhat fleshy, pai-ticu- 

 larly at the insertion, where it is placed in a rather deep cavity with a 



