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tender, half-melting, and of a refreshing, sweet, vinous, and musky 

 flavour. 



A dessert pear of the first quality ; ripe in Novemher. The tree is 

 a free grower and an abundant bearer. Succeeds well as a standard. 



BOUEGMESTKE. — Fruit, large ; oblong or pyramidal, curved, and 

 very uneven on the surface ; round at the apex, and knobbed about 

 the stalk. Skin, yellowish green, entirely covered with coarse, rough 

 russet, so much so that scarcely any of the ground colour is visible. 

 Eye, very small, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, an inch long, fleshy, 

 particularly at the base, where it is obliquely inserted and surrounded 

 with a fleshy ring. Flesh, yellowish, melting, juicy, and sweet, with a 

 fine musky flavour. 



A good second-rate pear ; ripe in November. 



BOUVTEE BOUEGMESTEE.— Fruit, medium size, two inches and 

 three-quarters wide, and three inches and three-quarters high ; oblong 

 obovate, even in its outline. Skin, lemon-yellow, speckled all over with 

 cinnamon-coloured russet, but particularly so towards the stalk and the 

 eye, where it forms a sort of crust, which is sometimes quite rough. 

 Eye, half open, with incurved segments, set in a shallow depression. 

 Stalk, an inch and a half long, inserted on the end of the fruit, which 

 is not tapering but abrupt. Flesh, yellowish, buttery, and melting, 

 rather gritty towards the core, with a fine sprightly rich and vinous 

 juice, and a fine aroma. 



A first-rate pear ; ripe in the end of October. 



Raised by M. Bivort from seed sown in 1824, and the tree first fruited in 1842. 

 It was named by him in honotlr of Mr. Simon Bouvier, burgomaster of Jodoigne, 

 in Belgium. 



Braddick's Field Standard. See Marie Louise. 



BEANDES ST. GEEMAIN.— Fruit, below medium size, two inches 

 wide and three inches high ; pyramidal, even and regular in outline. 

 Skin, covered almost entirely with a coat of thin cinnamon-coloured 

 russet, exposing here and there mottles and spots of the yellow ground ; 

 the whole surface strewed with large rough russet specks. Eye, small 

 and open, with short, erect segments, very sHghtly depressed. Stalk, 

 half an inch to three-quarters long, inserted obliquely without depres- 

 sion. Flesh, yellowish, half melting, not very juicy, with a brisk, sweet 

 flavour, and slight perfume. 



A second-rate pear ; ripe in the end of November, When it becomes 

 mealy. 



Raised at Lonvain by Van Mens, and named in honour of Dr. Braudes, Professor 

 of Chemistry at Salzuffeln. 



Bretonneau. See Bevrre Bretonneau. 

 BrilUant. See Flemish Beauty. 



BEITISH QUEEN. — Fruit, large; obovate-pyriform, the outline 

 undulatmg and bossed. Skin, smooth, and almost entirely covered with 



