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fine, dense, very melting, almost free from granulations; juice abundant, refreshing, sugary, 
with an exceedingly pleasant after flavor of anis; first; mid-Oct. 
Bonne de Beugny. 1. Rev. Hort. 280. 1911. 
A chance seedling, found at Sainte-Catherine-de-Fier-Bois, Fr., by M. Chivert in 1875. 
Fruit large to very large, globular-obtuse-pyriform, yellow, washed with russet especially 
round the stalk; flesh melting, juicy, sweet, and agreeably perfumed; first; Oct. to Jan. 
Bonne Carmélite. 1. Guide Prat. 88. 1876. 
Distributed from Tournai, Bel. Fruit semi-melting; like Calebasse in form; Mar. and 
Apr. 
Bonne de la Chapelle. 1. Mas Le Verger 2:231, fig. 114. 1866-73. 
A wilding found by Jacques Jalais, Nantes, Fr., in 1845. It was described in this 
country by Downing in 1869. Fruit medium, turbinate, short and swelled, rather irregular 
in contour, green, sprinkled with dots of a deeper shade of green, some russet blush on 
the exposed side; flesh a little greenish, fine, buttery, melting, with abundant sweet juice, 
first; end of Aug. 
Bonne Charlotte. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:477, fig. 1867. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
705. 1860. 
Obtained from seed in the garden of the Society of Van Mons at Geest-Saint-Rémy, 
Jodoigne, Bel., in 1849. Fruit medium, variable in form, but usually simply pyriform, 
bossed, pale yellow, with green dots, lightly washed with purple on the side exposed to the 
sun; flesh white, rather fine, more buttery than melting, sugary; juice sufficient and slightly 
musky; good; Aug. and Sept. 
Bonne d’Ezée. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 5:73, fig. 1857. 2. Pom. France 1:No. 34. PI. 
34. 1863. 
Brockworth Park. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 535. 1884. 
A wilding found at Ezée in the Touraine, Fr., by Dupuy about 1788. Fruit large, 
often medium, long-ovate-obtuse; skin rather thick, oily, lemon-yellow or golden, dotted 
and stained with bright russet; flesh white, very fine and melting; juice excessively abun- 
dant, sugary, acidulous, having an exquisite aroma; first; all Sept. 
Bonne de Jalais. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:480, fig. 1867. 
Obtained from seed in 1857 at Nantes, Fr., by Jacques Jalais. Fruit small, globular- 
ovate, bossed, one side always more enlarged than the other; skin rough, pale yellow, dotted 
with clear brown and stained with russet markings; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting, 
sometimes a little dry, slightly gritty at center; juice sufficient, very sugary and having an 
agreeable flavor; second; latter half of Sept. 
Bonne-Jeanne. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:481, fig. 1867. 
Origin unknown, but in the middle of the nineteenth century it was extensively culti- 
vated in the environs of Paris. Fruit medium to small, pyriform-obtuse, depressed at 
crown and stem, yellow-ochre, dotted and mottled with fawn and washed on the exposed 
side with brick-red or brilliant-violet-red; flesh greenish-white, semi-fine, and semi-melting, 
rather dry, very sweet and with a not unpleasant taste of fennel; third, middle of Aug. 
Bonne Sophia. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 706, fig. 18609. 
Fruit medium, obovate-acute-pyriform, pale greenish-yellow, with a red cheek, a 
