King Catherine. 2. Parkinson Par. Ter. 592. 1629.
Catherine Royal is mentioned by Langley as one of “the best kinds of Pears in England,” and is without doubt the King Catherine Pear described earlier by Parkinson. Fruit medium in size, obovate-obtuse-pyriform; July and Aug.
Catillac. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:233, Pl. LVIII, fig. 4. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:535, fig. 1867. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 716. 1869. 4. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 162. 1920.
Grand Monarque. 5. Knoop Fructologie 1:125, 136, fig. 1771.
This old French baking pear with over sixty synonyms is supposed to have been found near Cadillac in the Gironde. Bonnefond in 1665 in the Jardinier François first described it under this name. The great size of the Catillac has often caused it to be confused with the Pound pear, and the latter’s name has been applied as a synonym for the Catillac, but the two are distinct. Tree stout, vigorous, spreading, productive; leaf large, round, downy, serrate. Fruit very large, broadly turbinate, dull green to yellow, with brownish-red blush; stem stout, an inch long, in a small cavity; calyx open, in a moderately deep, ribbed basin; flesh hard, rough; one of the best of stewing pears, cooking a deep red; Nov. to Mar.
Catinka. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:537, fig. 1867. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 545. 1884.
Raised by Major Espéren from seed at Mechlin, Bel., about 1845. Fruit medium, obovate, lemon-yellow, thickly covered with large cinnamon-colored freckles and tracings of russet; flesh yellowish-white, juicy, sugary, with a rich, full flavor perfumed with rose; good; late autumn.
Cavaignac. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:96. 1856.
Raised by Van Mons, 1852. Fruit medium; skin rough, green changing to yellowish-green, blushed with red on the sun-exposed side; devoid of scent and flavor; Sept.