De Fosse. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:191, fig. 1869.
A very ancient French variety mentioned by Le Lectier in his catalog of 1628. Fruit below medium and often small, globular-turbinate, clear yellow dotted and netted with russet; flesh white, semi-fine, firm, semi-breaking, scented; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous; very musky; second or third; Aug. and Sept.
De Lamartine. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:325, fig. 1869.
Lamartine. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 797. 1869.
Raised by Bivort, director of the nurseries of the Society of Van Mons and first reported in 1850. Fruit small, globular or turbinate, flattened, often irregular and bossed, olive-green, dotted and very much covered with russet; flesh white, coarse, melting, generally gritty around the core; juice sufficient, sweet, musky and delicate; second, or third when the flesh is excessively gritty; Nov.
De Louvain. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:363, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 734. 1869.
Raised by Von Mons in 1827 and published in 1834. Fruit above medium, obtuse-turbinate, clear grass-green or dull yellow, much covered with fine dots of gray-russet and stains of russet; flesh whitish, semi-fine and semi-melting; juice abundant, saccharine, vinous, with a delicate flavor and perfume of musk; second; Sept.
De Prêtre. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:190. 1768. 2. Mag. Hort. 9:131. 1843. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:550, fig. 1869.
A very old French pear just mentioned by the pomologist Le Lectier of Orléans and for a long while known under the names of Caillout, Caillolet and Caillot d’Hiver. Le Lectier cultivated it in 1600 and cataloged it in 1628. In 1858 Decaisne coupled with it the ancient name of Carmelite. Fruit below medium, spherical but sometimes a little elongated and narrowed toward the upper part; skin rather thick, clear brown-russet dotted all over on the side exposed to the sun with whitish points, but with ash-gray points on the other side; flesh white, semi-fine, breaking, gritty at center; juice moderate in amount, saccharine, acidulous, more or less musky; second or third for dessert, first for compotes; Jan. to Mar.
De Rachinquin. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 170. 1832.