280 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Besi d’Héry. 1. Duhamel Trai. Arb. Fr. 2:139. 1768. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 506. 1884. 
Ktimmelbirne. 3. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 2:7. 1856. 
A wilding discovered in the forest of Héry or Héric in Brittany in the sixteenth century. 
The Bretons presented a basket of this fruit to King Henry IV on his visit to Brittany 
in 1598. Fruit medium, globular; skin thin, very smooth, bright green at first, changing 
when it ripens to pale yellow, with blush of red on the side next the sun, strewed with very 
minute points; flesh white, fine, semi-melting, generally gritty; juice sufficient, sweet, with 
somewhat of a Muscat perfume; first-rate cooking pear; Oct. to Jan. A good bearer 
in rich soil. 
Besi Liboutton. 1. Field Pear Cult. 278. 1858. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:277, fig. 1867. 
Origin uncertain, but it was cultivated in the garden of the Horticultural Society of 
Angers, Fr., in 1844. Fruit medium, globular, regular in form, resembling an apple, deeply 
depressed at either pole, green turning slightly yellow at maturity, sprinkled with large 
dots and some fawn-colored stains; flesh white, fine, semi-melting, gritty; juice sufficient, 
sugary, vinous, rather pleasantly perfumed; second; mid-Aug. to mid-Sept. 
Besi de Mai. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:278, fig. 1867. 
Raised by J. de Jonghe, Brussels, from a seed bed made in 1845. Fruit large, obovate, 
rather uneven and irregular in its outline, bossed, greenish, streaked and dotted with 
brown fawn; flesh fine, white, melting, rather gritty; juice sufficient, sugary, acid, richly 
flavored; first; Apr. and May. 
Besi de Moncondroiceu. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:65, fig. 321. 1880. 
According to Oberdieck, this variety was brought to him from the Ch4teau of 
Herrenhausen near Hanover. Fruit small, globular-ovoid, or irregularly round, often 
higher on one side than on the other, pale green, sown with points of gray-fawn; flesh 
whitish, semi-fine, melting, a little granular about the core, juicy, sugary, not much 
perfume; quality good but unstable, depending much on the season; Oct. 
Besi de Montigny. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:207, Pl. XLIV, fig. 6. 1768. 2. Leroy 
Dict. Pom. 12279, fig. 1867. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 701. 1869. 
The origin of this pear is ancient and uncertain. The monks of the Chartreuse at 
Paris, however, propagated and described it in 1752 and Duhamel du Monceau again wrote 
of it in 1768. Fruit medium, obovate but variable, one type being pyriform, ventriculous; 
color greenish-yellow, smooth, shining, sprinkled with exceedingly fine dots of fawn and 
russeted around both stem and calyx; flesh white, tender, buttery, semi-melting, gritty 
around the core; juice abundant, saccharine, acidulous, having a pleasant, musky flavor; 
first; end of Sept. occasionally to Nov. 
Besi de la Motte. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:206, Pl. XLIV, fig. 5. 1768. 2. Hogg 
Fruit Man, 507. 1884. 
First reported by La Quintinye, the creator of the fruit gardens of Louis XIV of France, 
as having been found by him at the end of October, 1685. Tree hardy, vigorous, a prolific 
bearer. Fruit above medium to large, globular, more swelled generally on one side than 
on the other, greenish-yellow or bright green, sprinkled with large russet dots; flesh 
whitish, fine, melting, buttery, slightly gritty; juice very abundant and full of sugar, 
savory and delicate; first; Sept. and Oct. and sometimes later. 
