PEAKS. 391 



inches high ; roundish obovate, regular, and handsome. Skin, greenish 

 yellow, very much covered with large russet specks, like the belly of a 

 toad, and a red blush next the sun. Eye, small and open, set in a 

 rather shallow depression. Stalk, stout, thickened at both extremities, 

 nearly an inch long, curved, and inserted in a round cavity. Flesh, 

 rather firm, half-melting, coarse-grained, juicy, rather sweet, and with 

 a pleasant perfume. 



A good but not first-rate pear, in shape and colour not unlike White 

 Doyenne ; ripe in the beginning of November. 



There are two distinct varieties called Beurr6 Beauchamps. That of Bivort, which 

 he says he finds in Van Mous' catalogue of 1823, and which is no doubt the same 

 as No. 92 in the supplement to the first series, under the name "Beauchamps : par 

 son patron." This is the fruit described above, and also by Diel, who says, " it is 

 very like Beurre Blanc, reddish on the sunny side, and strongly dotted." It is also 

 the Beurr^ Beauehamp of my friend M. Leroy, with whom 1 am sorry I cannot 

 agree in regarding Henkel d'Hiver as a syuonyme of it. See Henkel d'Hiver. 

 The other variety is the Beurr6 Beauchamps of Dittrich, which he is careful to 

 state " has no red on the sunny side," and which he describes as a seedling of Van 

 Mons. Van Mons himself attributes the origin of Bivort's variety to M. Beauehamp, 

 and it is quite possible that he raised the other and dedicated it to the same person, 

 subsequent to the publication of his catalogue, in which there is no mention made 

 of a Buerre Beauchamps. 



Beurre Beauchamps. See Bergamotte Cadette. 



Beurre Beaumont. See Besi Vast. 



BEUKEE DES BEGUINE8.— Fruit, below medium size, two 

 inches and a half wide and two high; round and Bergamot-shaped, 

 even and regular in its outline, somewhat larger on one side of the 

 axis than the other. Skin, entirely covered with a crust of dark cinna- 

 mon brown russet. Eye, very large and closed, with long pointed 

 segments, set in a wide shallow plaited basin. Stalk, three-quarters 

 of an inch long, stout, a little curved, and inserted in a round cavity. 

 Flesh, rather coarse-grained, but very juicy and sweet, very richly 

 flavoured, highly aromatic, and with the perfume of Seckle. 



A very rich and remarkable flavoured pear ; ripe in the beginning of 

 September, after which it soon decays. 



This is a seedling of Van Mons, and I presume ffo. 213 of the second series of 

 the catalogue, where it is called " Du B6guinage ; par nous." It first produced 

 fruit in 1844. 



BEUREE BENNERT. — Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a 

 quarter wide and a httle more high ; turbinate, even and regular in its 

 outline. Skin, pale lemon-yellow, speckled all over with large cinna- 

 mon-coloured dots, which are wide apart, with a red blush on the side 

 next the sun, and covered with a network of russet. Eye, small and 

 open. Stalk, an inch long, sometimes obliquely and sometimes per- 

 pendicularly inserted. Flesh, yeUow, somewhat gritty at the core, 

 juicy, half-melting, sweet, with a cold acidity, and aromatic. 



A pear of uncertain merit ; ripe from December to February. The 

 tree is not vigorous, but bears pretty well, and makes a good pyramid 

 on the pear stock. 



