402 THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



BEUERE MOIRE.— Fruit, above mediam size; obtuse-pyriform. 

 Skin, greenish yellow, considerably covered with pale bright yellow 

 russet and russety dots. Eye, small, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, 

 an inch long, stout, inserted'in a cavity. Flesh, buttery and melting, 

 but not richly flavoured, and with a high perfume. 



Eipe in November. 



Beurre de Mortefontaine. See Beurre Lefevre. 



BEURRE NANTAIS (Beurre de Nantes).— Frmt, large and round. 

 Skin, covered with a coat of pale brown russet, hke the Brown Beurre, 

 through which a little of the greenish yellow ground colour appears. 

 Eye, very small and open, set in a small and narrow basin. Stalk, 

 short, stout, and woody, placed on one side of the axis. Flesh, rather 

 coarse-grained, gritty at the core, not melting nor very juicy, but with 

 a sweet and peculiar vinous flavour. 



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



Beurre Napoleon. See Napoleon. 



Beurre de Noirchain. See Beurre de Ranee. 



Beurr6 de Noir Chair. See Beurre de Ranee. 



Beurre des Orphelines. See Beurre d'Aremberg. 



Beurre de Paques. See Easter Beurre. 



Beurre de Paris. See Jargonelle. 



Beurre de Payenee. See Calebasse. 



Beurre de Pentecote. See Easter Beurre. 



Beurre Picquery. See Urbaniste. 



Beurre Plat. See Grasanne. 



BEURBE PRECOCE. — Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a 

 half wide and three inches high ; obovate, blunt at the stalk, even and 

 regularly shaped. Skin, green, becoming yellowish green as it ripens, 

 strewed with large russet specks, and tinged with reddish brown nest 

 the sun ; a broad zone of rather rough russet encircles the fruit about 

 an inch distant from the eye. Eye, rather open, with short segments 

 set in a round saucer-hke basin. Stalk, nearly two inches long, slender, 

 set in a round cavity. Flesh, crisp, very juicy, brisk, and refreshing, 

 sometimes with a slight astringency. 



A good early pear ; ripe in the middle of August. The tree is an 

 early and abundant bearer, and forms handsome pyramids on the pear. 



It was raised by M. Goubault, a nurseryman at Mille-Pieds, Route de Saumur, 

 Angers. 



Beurre de Printemps. See Colmar Van Mons. 



Beurre Quetelet. See Comte de Lamy. 



Beurre de Rackenheim. See Pomme Poire, 



