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■with a few green dots. Eye, open, with long linear segments. Stalk, 

 stout and fleshy, an inch long, and obliquely inserted. Flesh, white, 

 coarse-grained, and inclining to gritty, half-melting and juicy, with an 

 agreeable perfume. 



This is only a second-rate pear, the texture of the flesh being coarse. 

 Eipe in October. 



This was discovered as a wilding at Ezee, near Loches, in the Touraine, in 1788, 

 and was first brought into notice by M. Dapuy, a nurseryman at Loches. 



Bonne de Haies. See Bonne d'Ezee. 



Bonne de Eaenzheim. See ValUe Franche. 



Bonne de Longueval. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



Bonne Louise d'Avranches. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



Bonne Malinaise. See Winter Nelis. 



Bonne de Malines. See Winter Nelis. 



Bonne de Noel. See Fondante de Noel. 



Bonne Kouge. See Qansel's Bergamot. 



Bonne de Soulers. See Bergamotte de Soulers. 



Bonnissime. See Figue d'Alengon. 



Bonnissime de la Sarthe. See Figue d'Alengon. 



Bonte Bergamotte. See Bergamotte Suisse. 



Booter Peer. See Angleterre. 



De Bordeaux. See Besi d'Heri. 



Bosch Peer. See Flemish Beauty. 



Boss Peer. See Flemish Beauty. 



Bourdon. See Bourdon Musquc, 



BOUEDON MXJSQUE.— Fruit, small; roundish, and flattened at 

 the apex. Skin, smooth, at first bright green, changing to yellowish 

 green, strewed with darker green and russety dots. Eye, open, with 

 long segments and set in a wide and rather deep basin. Stalk, an 

 inch and a half long, inserted without depression. Flesh, white, 

 tender, crisp, with a sweet, pleasant, and musky flavour. 



A dessert pear of ordinary quality ; ripe in August. The tree suc- 

 ceeds well as a standard. 



The name is supposed to have originated from the similarity of the fruit to the 

 knob of a pilgrim's staff, which was a turned piece of wood with a round knob or 

 apple at the top and in the middle, and called in French Bourdon. 



BOURDON DE ROI.— Fruit, smaU; roundish. Skin, smooth, 

 yell&wish green, changmg to clear yellow, with a ti-ace of dai-k red 

 next the sun. Eye, small and open, with short, hard segments, and 

 set in a wide rather deep basin. Stalk, half an inch long, stout, and 

 fleshy, and inserted in a wide and deep cavity. Flesh, white, very 



