Belle Julie. 1. Elliott Fr. Book 350. 1854. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:204, 205, fig. 1867.
Alexandrine Hélie. 3. Guide Prat. 81. 1876.
Raised by Van Mons and fruited first in 1842. Fruit medium, long-obovate-pyriform, greenish-yellow, much patched and netted with russet, dotted with bright fawn; flesh rather greenish-yellow, coarse, semi-melting, juicy, sugary, vinous, with a fine perfume; first; Oct. and Nov.
Belle de Kain. 1. Guide Prat. 83. 1876.
On trial with Messrs. Simon-Louis of Metz, Lorraine, in 1876. Fruit large, pyriform-truncate, brilliant lemon-yellow; flesh semi-melting; a good market variety.
Belle de Lorient. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:205, 206, fig. 1867.
Belle de l’Orient. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 668. 1869.
This variety was growing in the old garden of the Horticultural Society of Angers about 1835, and probably originated in the environs of Lorient, Fr. Fruit large, oblong-ovate-pyriform, bossed at the summit, greenish-yellow, dotted all over with large and numerous specks of fawn; flesh wanting in fineness, half-breaking, white, gritty, fairly juicy, without perfume, sourish; second for the kitchen; Sept. and Oct.
Belle de Malines. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:207, fig. 1867.
Received by Leroy, Angers, Fr., from Belgium in 1863 as a new variety and without statement of its origin. Fruit medium, turbinate-obtuse, ventriculous, having one side larger than the other, bright yellow, dotted, streaked and stained with russet, washed with delicate rose on the side next the sun; fresh dull white, semi-fine, melting, gritty at center; juice sufficient, sweet, fresh, saccharine, musky; first; Aug. and Sept.