PEARS. 409 



yellowish white, very melting and very juicy ; the juice rather thin, 

 and not highly flavoured, but very cool, pleasant, and refreshing. 



A very nice pear ; ripe during October and November. The tree 

 bears well as a standard. 



I received this from M. Papeleu, of Wetteren, in 1848, but it appears to be a 

 very different pear from the Bon Chretien Fondant of M. Leroy, which is made 

 synonymous with Bon Chretien de Bruxelles. 



Bon Chretien d'Hiver. See Winter Bon Chretien. 



Bon Chretien Napoleon. See Napoleon. 



Bon Chretien Nouvelle. See Flemish Bon Chretien, 



Bon Chretien de Kans. See Beurre de Ranee. 



Bon Chretien de Tours. See Winter Bon Chretien. 



Bon Chretien Turc. See Flemish Bon Chretien. 



Bon Chretien de Vernois. See Flemish Bon Chretien. 



Bon Dieu. See Ah ! mon Dieu, 



BON GUSTAVE. — Fruit, large ; obovate, rather bossed, and undu- 

 lating in its outline. Skin, lemon-yellow, thickly dotted and veined 

 with brown russet, with a tinge of warm orange-red next the sun. 

 Eye, small and open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, slender and 

 woody, inserted obliquely at almost right angles with the fruit. Flesh, 

 yellowish, rather coarse-grained, sweet, and with an agreeable flavour. 



A second-rate pear, with coarse flesh, which becomes mealy in 

 November. 



A seedling of Major Esperen, of Malines, which, after his death, went into the 

 possession of M. Berckmans, who named it after one of his sons. It first fmited 

 in 1847. 



Bon Papa. See Vicar of Winkfield. 



BON PARENT. — Fruit, medium sized ; obtuse pyrifoim. Skin, 

 smooth, lemon-yellow, covered with dots of grey russet, which are 

 very thick round the eye and the stalk, where they form patches. 

 Eye, open, with short, erect, fleshy segments, set in a very shallow 

 basin. Stalk, long, fleshy, and pale brown, obliquely inserted on one 

 side of the axis. Flesh, yellowish white, coarse-grained, half-melting, 

 sweet, and pleasantly perfumed. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in October. 



It was raised in 1820 by M. Simon Bouvier, of Jodoigne. 



Bonne d' Avranches. See Louise Bonne of Jersey, 

 Bonne Ente. See White Doyenne. 



BONNE D'EZEE {Belle de Zees; Bonne de Zees; Bonne de 

 Haies). — Fruit, large, two inches and a quarter wide, and three inches 

 and a quarter long ; pyramidal. Skin, straw-coloured, with a tinge of 

 green, and thickly marked with traces of brown russet interspersed 



