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with a few broken streaks of darker crimson, and strewed with white dots on 
the side exposed to the sun. Eye open, with long, spreading, downy seg¬ 
ments, placed in a shallow depression. Stalk an inch long, placed on a level 
with the surface, or in a slight cavity. Flesh white, rather dry, with a sweet, 
slightly perfumed, and somewhat astringent juice. 
An inferior Pear, ripe in the middle of August. 
This, we are informed by M. Decaisne, is sold extensively in the markets 
and streets of Paris. It is the fruit described by Duhamel under the name of 
Bellissime d’ete, and I believe it to be the Jargonelle of Merlet; but as there 
is so great confusion among the names and synonymes of Bellissime d’ete, 
Jargonelle, Supreme, and Vermilion d’ete of different authors, I have followed 
M. Decaisne, and here adopted his nomenclature, so as to prevent any further 
difficulty, and adopted a 
name by which this variety 
may be henceforth distin¬ 
guished. The figure here 
given is taken from M. De- 
caisne’s splendid work. 
DE BAVAY.— Van Mons. 
Identification. —De Bavay 
Traite, 122. Decaisne Jard. 
Fruit, du Mus. liv. 14. 
Synonyme. —Autumn Col¬ 
mar, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. n. 
151; Lincll. Guide , 363; Doivn 
Fr. Amer. 353. 
Figure. — Decaisne Jard. 
Fruit, du Mus. liv. 14. 
Fruit large, 3J inches 
long by 2f w T ide, obtuse 
pyramidal, rounded at the 
apex, and narrowing obtusely 
towards the stalk. Skin 
smooth, lemon-coloured, 
strewed with dots and mark¬ 
ings of russet, and with a 
circle of russet round the 
eye. Eye open, with erect 
narrow segments, and filled 
with the remnants of the 
stamens, placed in a shallow 
basin rather on one side. 
Stalk nearly 2 inches long, 
curved, fleshy, uneven, with 
indications of incipient buds, 
dark browm, but green where 
it has been shaded, inserted De Bavay. 
on the end of the fruit with 
little or no cavity. Flesh coarse-grained, sweet, and perfumed, but not pos¬ 
sessing any special merit. 
A second-rate Pear, ripe in the end of September and beginning of October. 
The tree is an excellent bearer, succeeds well as a standard, and may be 
grown with equal success either on the pear or the quince. It was raised by 
Van Mons, and named in honour of M. De Bavay, a nurseryman at Vilvorde, 
