Charles van Hooghten. 1. Mag. Hort. 17:472. 1851. 2. Horticulturist 8:30, fig. 1853.
Fruit large, even, roundish-oval, yellow, netted and patched with russet and with many russet dots; stem slender, fleshy at insertion; calyx open; basin shallow; flesh white, coarse-grained, gritty, not very juicy, sweet, rich, with a musky perfume; good; Oct.
Charles Van Mons. 1. Mag. Hort. 16:295. 1850. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 238. 1854. 3. Hogg Fr. Man. 546. 1884.
Belgian, about 1847. At the second session of the Congress of Fruit Growers in 1850 this pear was placed on the rejected list, as also it was again by the American Pomological Society in 1854. Fruit large, oblong-obovate-obtuse, smooth, bright green, strewed with some minute dots; flesh yellowish, rather coarse-grained, with a cold acidity and not much flavor; of small merit; Oct. and Nov.
Charli Basiner. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 546. 1884. 2. Guide Prat. 89. 1895.
A production of J. de Jonghe of Brussels, Bel., about 1857. Fruit medium, obovate, pale green, dotted and clouded with brown-russet changing as it ripens to yellowish-green; flesh white, juicy and sugary; first; Sept. and Oct.
Charlotte de Brouwer. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 3:33. 1855. 2. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 1, 107, fig. 52. 1866-73.
One of Major Espéren’s seedlings raised at Mechlin, Bel., and reported on in 1835. Fruit medium and above, globular-ovate, yellow ground of skin almost entirely covered with a coating of light brown-russet except on the shaded side; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, semi-melting; juice sufficient, sugary, vinous, acid and very astringent; second; Oct. and Nov.
Charlotte de Roucourt. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 194. 1889. 2. Guide Prat. 89. 1895.
Distributed by Daras de Naghin of Antwerp, Bel., about 1880. Fruit medium, obovate or obtuse-pyriform; flesh melting, very juicy, sugary, perfumed; Mar. and Apr.