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THE ELOE.IST AND POMOLOGIST. 
striped with green and yellow, and faintly tinged with red where it is exposed 
to the sun. Eye open, placed in a round and shallow basin. Stalk three- 
quarters of an inch long, inserted in a small cavity. Flesh white, melting, and 
buttery, with a sugary and perfumed flavour. 
An old French dessert Pear, of second-rate quality, remarkable for its beau¬ 
tifully striped skin. It is ripe in October. 
The tree, in rich soil, is a vigorous grower, and an excellent bearer, but, 
unless grown in a favourable situation, it is liable to canker. It succeeds well 
either on the pear or quince, and requires a wall to bring the fruit to perfection. 
Poiteau considers this a variegated variety of Bergamotte d’Automne, which in 
all probability it is. 
BERGAMOTTE THOUIN.— Van Mom. 
Identification. —Diel Kernobst. xxiii, 176. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. n. 49. 
Fruit rather below medium size, 2\ inches wide and the same in height, 
Bergamot-shaped, or roundish turbinate. Skin smooth, pale green at first, but 
changing as it ripens to pale lemon yellow, with a slight trace of pale brown 
russet about the eye, and covered over with numerous pale brown dots. Eye 
open, with erect and horny segments, and placed in a shallow basin. Stalk an 
inch long, slender, inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh white, tender, and 
melting, with an agreeable, sugary, and vinous flavour. 
A good dessert Pear, but only of second-rate quality, ripe in November. 
It was raised by Dr. Van Mons, and named in honour of M. J. Thouin, director 
of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. 
The tree is a vigorous grower, and an abundant bearer, .succeeding well as 
a standard. 
BESI D’ESPEREN.— Bivort. 
Identification.- —Alb. de Pom. ii. 144. 
Figure. —Alb. de Pom. ii. 
Fruit above medium size, 3f inches long and 2f broad, long pyriform. Skin 
clear green, mottled with pale brown russet, and, as it acquires maturity, 
assuming a yellowish tinge. Eye rather small and open, set in a shallow 
depression. Stalk slender and woody, 1 inch to 1£ long, inserted in a narrow 
cavity, with a swollen lip on one side of it. Flesh white, buttery and melting, 
juicy, sugary, and vinous. 
A second-rate Pear, ripe in November. It was raised by Major Esperen, 
of Malines, and the tree produced fruit in 1838, at which period it was about 
twelve years old. 
BESI GARNIER .—Liron cVAir. 
Identification. —Liron d’Air. Not. Pom. i. 31. 
Fruit large, 4A inches long and 3 wide, pyriform. Skin rough to the feel, 
dark green, strongly mottled with brown russet, and finely dotted with the 
same colour; when it attains maturity it assumes a yellowish tinge, and has a 
slight tinge of crimson on the side next the sun. Eye set in a shallow basin. 
Stalk three-quarters of an inch long, swollen at its insertion, and placed on a 
level with the surface. Flesh white, crisp, and breaking, juicy, and sugary. 
A coarse and second-rate fruit, in use in April. It was raised by M. Gamier, 
of Bouvardiere, near Nantes. 
BESI GOUBAULT.— C. Hort. d’Ang. 
Identification. —Com. Hort. d’Ang. 
Fruit medium-sized, 2£ inches long and over 2f- wide, turbinate. Skin 
lemon-coloured, thickly strewed with russet dots, and on the side next the sun 
almost entirely covered with pale brown russet. Eye rather large and open, 
