Obtained from seed in the garden of the Society of Van Mons at Geest-Saint-Rémy, Jodoigne, Bel., in 1849. Fruit medium, variable in form, but usually simply pyriform, bossed, pale yellow, with green dots, lightly washed with purple on the side exposed to the sun; flesh white, rather fine, more buttery than melting, sugary; juice sufficient and slightly musky; good; Aug. and Sept.
Bonne d’Ezée. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 5:73, fig. 1857. 2. Pom. France 1:No. 34. Pl. 34. 1863.
Brockworth Park. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 535. 1884.
A wilding found at Ezée in the Touraine, Fr., by Dupuy about 1788. Fruit large, often medium, long-ovate-obtuse; skin rather thick, oily, lemon-yellow or golden, dotted and stained with bright russet; flesh white, very fine and melting; juice excessively abundant, sugary, acidulous, having an exquisite aroma; first; all Sept.
Bonne de Jalais. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:480, fig. 1867.
Obtained from seed in 1857 at Nantes, Fr., by Jacques Jalais. Fruit small, globular-ovate, bossed, one side always more enlarged than the other; skin rough, pale yellow, dotted with clear brown and stained with russet markings; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting, sometimes a little dry, slightly gritty at center; juice sufficient, very sugary and having an agreeable flavor; second; latter half of Sept.
Bonne-Jeanne. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:481, fig. 1867.
Origin unknown, but in the middle of the nineteenth century it was extensively cultivated in the environs of Paris. Fruit medium to small, pyriform-obtuse, depressed at crown and stem, yellow-ochre, dotted and mottled with fawn and washed on the exposed side with brick-red or brilliant-violet-red; flesh greenish-white, semi-fine, and semi-melting, rather dry, very sweet and with a not unpleasant taste of fennel; third, middle of Aug.
Bonne Sophia. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 706, fig. 1869.
Fruit medium, obovate-acute-pyriform, pale greenish-yellow, with a red cheek, a few patches and nettings of russet and numerous small, brown dots; flesh white, fine, melting, sweet and slightly perfumed; very good; Oct.