Named from Blickling Hall, Norfolk, Eng., and supposed to have been introduced by monks from Belgium. Fruit greenish and russety; flesh melting, of rich flavor; excellent; Dec. and Jan.
Block. 1. Ragan Nom. Pear, B. P. I. Bul. 126:59. 1908.
Originated by A. Block, Santa Clara, Calif., before 1908. Fruit medium, globular-ovate; green-yellow, russeted; flesh melting; season medium.
Blodget. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 2:216. 1832.
Raised from seed by David Blodget, Camden, Me., about 1800. Fruit medium, pyriform; flesh melting, juicy, with a pleasant, vinous flavor; Sept.
Blumenbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:154. 1856.
A seedling of Van Mons, Bel., 1825. Fruit small, roundish-turbinate-obtuse, lemon-yellow, washed with red on the sunny side; flesh half-melting; good; end of Aug.
Blutbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:193. 1856. 2. Löschnig Mostbirnen 218, fig. 1913.
Published in Germany in 1795 and regarded as a perry pear in Austria. It is known as the Flesh-pear in Upper and Lower Austria and also as the Sanguinol in the former. Fruit small, globular-pyriform, obtuse, greenish-yellow, strongly blushed on the sun-exposed side; flesh yellowish-white, flushed with red especially on the side next the sun, rather coarse, subacid, little aroma; third; Oct.