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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
which he was very wont to indulge, not unfrequently sending two or three 
different Pears under the same number to different persons. 
BASINER .—De Jonghe. 
Fruit doyenne-shaped, rather uneven, and bossed on its surface. Skin with 
a greenish yellow ground colour, and much covered with pale cinnamon brown 
russet, which is distributed in 
patches, particularly round the 
stalk, and in dots, which are 
interspersed with green dots 
over the surface. Eye small 
and open, sometimes wanting, 
set in a deep and narrow basin. 
Stalk short, stout, and slightly 
curved, set in the centre of the 
stump-ended fruit, in a round 
and rather deep cavity. Flesh 
yellowish white, fine-grained, 
crisp, sweet, and very juicy and 
sugary. 
One of the best very late 
Pears I have met with, which 
Bassin or Bellissime d’ete. 
Basiner. 
I 
ripens in the end of May and begin¬ 
ning of June. 
This was raised by M. J. de Jonghe, 
of Brussels, and first produced fruit in 
1857, at which time the tree was twelve 
years old. The tree is an excellent 
bearer. 
BASSIN.— Decaisne. 
Identification. —Decaisne Jard. Fruit, 
du Mus. liv. 23. 
Synonymes. —Bellissime d’ete, Duh. Arb. 
Fr. ii. 203. Jargonelle (?), Merlet Abrege. 
Saint Laurent, Acc. Decaisne. Just, Ibid. 
Belle Cornelie, Ibid. 
Figure. —Decaisne Jard. Fruit, du Mus. 
liv. 23. 
Fruit medium-sized, obtuse pyri¬ 
form. Skin smooth and shining, of a 
fine rich lemon yellow colour, strewed 
with large russet dots on the shaded side, and bright light crimson, marked 
