A French pear raised in the commune of Doué-la-Fontaine, Maine-et-Loire, by Pierre Chatenay in 1846. Fruit small, ovate, bossed and contorted, yellowish-green, washed with bright red on the side exposed to the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, juicy, sugary, highly perfumed; first; Nov.
Beurré Chaudy. 1. Guide Prat. 86. 1895.
Fruit very large, pyriform, bossed, bright green changing to pale yellow at maturity; flesh fine, melting, very juicy, perfumed; Oct. to Dec.
Beurré Christ. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:143, fig. 168. 1878.
Described in the Van Mons Catalog under the number 139; dedicated to the German pomologist Christ. Fruit medium, obovate, rather bossed in its outline, bright green, numerous small dots of gray-brown; quality good; flesh fine, buttery; Oct. and Nov.
Beurré Citron. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 676. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:133, fig. 67, 1872.
From a Van Mons’ seed bed. Fruit small or medium, ovate, somewhat globular, lemon-yellow; flesh white, fine, breaking; juice sufficient, wanting in sugar, acidulous, without appreciable perfume; not of first quality but of some value on account of its prolonged period of maturity; Jan. to end of winter.
Beurré Clotaire. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:337, fig. 1867.
The wilding, parent-tree of this variety was found in 1854 by M. Clot, Angers, Fr. Fruit medium, obovate-pyriform, obtuse, generally narrowed toward the summit, yellow-ochre color, much dotted with greenish-russet; flesh whitish, fine, watery, melting, gritty round center; second; Sept.
Beurré de Coit. 1. Mas Le Verger 2:243, fig. 120. 1866-73. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 722. 1869.