Bon-Chrétien Bonnamour. 1. Rev. Hort. 76. 1898. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 196, fig. 1906.
Raised in 1895 by M. Guillot, Rhône, Fr., and placed on the market in 1898. Fruit large to very large, of typical Bartlett form, rather contracted at the lower end and obliquely hollowed around the stalk, smooth, shining, and covered with fawn-russet and often tinted on the side next the sun; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sweet, perfumed; first class.
Bon-Chrétien d’Espagne. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:216, Pl. 46. 1768. 2. Mas Le Verger 1:131, fig. 64. 1866-73.
Spanish Warden. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 648. 1884.
The origin of Bon-Chrétien d’Espagne or Spanish Warden is ancient and uncertain. Merlet described it in 1675, and so did La Quintinye, in 1692. It was well known; for Messrs. Simon-Louis of Metz, Lorraine, gave it some forty synonyms in their 1895 catalog. Fruit large, pyriform, very ventriculous in its lower half where it is more or less bossed, the upper part narrows to an obtuse end; skin thick, greenish-yellow changing to yellow, dotted and marked with fawn-russet, and highly colored with vivid red on the side exposed to the sun; flesh white, coarse, breaking, juicy, with a pleasant, brisk flavor and musky aroma; third for the table, first for the kitchen; Nov., Jan. and even Mar.
Bon-Chrétien d’été. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:217, Pl. XLVII, fig. 4. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:457, fig. 1867.
Origin ancient and unknown but was cultivated in French gardens about the end of the sixteenth century, being mentioned by Olivier de Serres in 1600, and by Le Lectier of Orléans in 1628. It has been cultivated all over Europe for over three centuries and has consequently acquired a number of synonyms. Fruit large, pyriform, irregular in form, yellow, with orange blush on side next the sun, and strewed with green specks; flesh yellowish, crisp, coarse-grained, very juicy and of a rich, sweet and pleasant flavor; second; early Sept.
Bon-Chrétien Fondant. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 704. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:113, fig. 537. 1881.
Bon-Chrétien de Bruxelles. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:453, fig. 1867.
An ancient Flemish pear which must not be confounded with Épine d’Été although Bugiarda has been used as a synonym for both. Fruit large, oblong-pyriform, green, sprinkled with small dots of deep green, the fundamental green changing to lemon-yellow on maturity; flesh whitish, very melting and juicy, sweet, delicately perfumed; good; Oct. and Nov.