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perience in ripening it. It has not the fault of coming too 

 lato into bearing that some varieties have. 



Betjrre Easter. See Easter Beurre. 



Beurre Rhine. Color, light yellow, rough spots ; form, 

 pyriform, irregular ; size, 1 ; use, table ; texture, rather 

 coarse; quality, 2; season, October and November. 



Eemarks. — Succeeds very well on the quince. Often 

 very good in the East. Called "Poor," by the Fruit Com- 

 mittee Cincinnati Horticultural Exhibition, 1855. 



Beurre Brown, or Brown Beurre. Color, yellowish 

 green on brownish ground ; size, 1 ; use, table ; texture, 

 buttery, melting, juicy ; quality, 2 ; season, September. 

 (See Appendix, 79.) 



Eemarks. — An old variety. Requires a warm, rich 

 soil, A peculiar vinous taste. Much finer in England 

 than in the West. There it is one of their choicest fruits. 



BEURRE BOSC. Color, dark yellow, with russet dots ; 

 form obovate, acute, pyriform ; size, 1 ; use, table ; tex- 

 ture, juicy, melting, sweet ; quality, 2 ; season, September 

 and October. 



Remarks. — Fruit always fine. Foreign, by Van Mons. 

 Fruit varies somewhat in size. Tree, vigorous ; long, 

 brownish olive shoots. Yery fine, though a wild grower. 

 Exhibited by Mr. T. M. Millikin, of the town of Ham- 

 ilton, at the Cincinnati Horticultural Exhibition, 1855. 

 Will not do on the quince stock ; perhaps the only one 

 that will not do at all. Varies in different seasons. 



Beurre Superpin. Color, dull pale green ; size, 1 ; 

 use, table; texture, juicy; quality, 2; season, Septem- 

 ber and October. 



