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juicy, melting, containing some grit around the core; juice excessive, not much sugar or 
flavor; third; Aug. and Sept. 
Baseler Sommer-Muskatellerbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:34. 1856. 
Raised in Switzerland, 1809. Fruit medium, globular-ovate, tender skin, of a uniform 
yellow-green, dotted with green, often flecked with russet; fresh semi-melting, tender, 
aromatic; first for table, culinary uses and market; July. 
Basiner. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 72155, fig. 558. 1881. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 491. 1884. 
Raised by M. J. de Jonghe, Brussels, in 1845 and first produced fruit in 1857. Hogg, 
the English pomologist, described it as “‘ one of the best very late pears I have met with.” 
Fruit medium, globular-turbinate, greenish-yellow much covered with pale cinnamon- 
brown russet, distributed in patches, particularly around the stalk and in dots which are 
interspersed with green dots over the surface; flesh yellowish-white, fine-grained, breaking, 
sweet, saccharine, wanting in perfume; good for kitchen use and recommended on account 
of its extraordinarily long season, spring into the summer. 
Baudry. 1. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:234. 1903. 2. Ont. Dept Agr. Fr. Ont. 
147. 1914. 
Bon Chretien Fred Baudry. 3. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 44. 1893. 
Listed as a promising winter pear in Ontario, Can. Fruit large, oblong-pyriform, 
yellowish with russet patches; flesh yellow, tender, granular at the center, juicy, sweet, with 
a pleasant flavor; quality good: Feb. and Mar. 
Beacon. 1. Ellwanger & Barry Cat. 20. 1892. 2. Bunyard-Thomas Fr. Gard. 132, 456. 
1904. 
Fruit medium, long-ovate, very regular, smooth and shining, pale green, some russet, 
turning yellow, with a brown cheek; flesh firm, sweet; not first, but passable for its season; 
late July. 
Beadnell. 1. Gard. Chron. 692. 1852. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 357. 1854. 
Raised by John Beadnell, West Green Road, Tottenham, Middlesex, Eng., and fruited 
for the first time about 1840. Fruit below medium, turbinate, even and regular in outline, 
bright green, with a dull red cheek where exposed to the sun; on ripening the basic green 
becomes yellow and the dull red crimson; where the two colors blend there are some stripes 
of crimson and on the colored side are numerous minute, gray dots; flesh melting, extremely 
juicy, sweet and richly flavored; a fine early pear; late Sept. but does not keep long. 
Beau dela Cour. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7: 109, fig. 535. 188r. 
Mentioned in the Bulletin of the Society Van Mons in 1855. Fruit small or nearly 
medium, globular-ovate, even in outline, light green covered with very numerous dark 
green spots changing at maturity to a brilliant pale yellow, though the spots remain green 
but less visible; the side next the sun is stained with vermilion; flesh coarse, dry, very sac- 
charine, musky; good for cooking; Aug. 
Beau Présent d’Artois. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:18s, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 13275, 
fig. 88. 1872. 
Present Royal of Naples. 3. Mag. Hort. 4:395. 1838. 
Prévost, who died at Rouen in 1849, wrote of this pear that he considered it identical 
with the Présent royal de Naples which it is said obtained its name from the fact that the 
