Brewer. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 708. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:1, fig. 289. 1880.
Origin uncertain, but probably American. Fruit medium, obovate-pyriform; skin thin, tender, bright green dotted with very small, brown specks; flesh white, translucent, melting; juice sweet, very abundant, delicately and agreeably perfumed; good; Oct.
Brewster. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 46. 1866.
A seedling fruited by Dr. S. A. Shurtleff of Brookline, Mass., in 1865. Fruit medium, yellow, melting and juicy; Nov.
Brialmont. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:498, fig. 1867.
Origin uncertain, but it was described in the catalog of the Society of Van Mons. Fruit medium, globular-ovate, mammillate at summit, yellowish-green, covered with dots and patches of gray russet; flesh very white, dense, fine, semi-melting, some grit about the core; juice abundant, sweet and perfumed; second; Oct.
Brielsche Pomeranzenbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:22. 1856.
Orange de Briel. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:47, fig. 408. 1880.
Attributed to Holland about 1812 by Dochnahl. Fruit small or nearly small, globular-turbinate, sides uneven (Dochnahl), even contour (Mas), green passing at maturity to bright lemon-yellow, washed on the side next the sun with a beautiful vermilion, covered with numerous minute dots of fawn which change to yellow on the sunny side; flesh whitish, rather fine, semi-buttery, gritty, not very juicy, saccharine; first.
Briffaut. 1. Gard. Chron. 367. 1863.