A Belgian pear sent out before 1876. Fruit flesh very fine, juicy, sweet, perfumed, musky; an exquisite pear; Oct.; tree never blighted.

Beurré Épine. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:359, fig. 1867.

M. Bivort was the first to describe this pear which he did in 1850; it was disseminated from Belgium. Fruit above medium, long-obtuse-pyriform, even in contour; skin rough, lemon-yellow, mottled with fawn, heavily washed with brown-russet on the side next the sun; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting, gritty around the core; juice abundant, vinous and saccharine, with a delicate, acid flavor; second; Nov.

Beurré d’Espéren. 1. McIntosh Bk. Gard. 2:460. 1855.

Fruit large; good; tree hardy, healthy and succeeds well on quince stock; Jan.

Beurré d’Esquelmes. 1. Guide Prat. 77. 1895.

Raised by Joseph Dumont at Esquelmes near Toumai, Bel. Fruit rather large, globular-obovate or Doyenné-shaped, yellowish-green, washed with fawn; flesh fine, melting; good; Nov.

Beurré Eugène Furst. 1. Guide Prat. 86. 1876.

Fruit large; flesh melting; of first quality; Oct.

Beurré Fauve de Printemps. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:135, fig. 356. 1880.