Petit-Blanquet. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:132, Pl. VI. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:517, fig. 1869.
Little Blanquet. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 802. 1869.
Small Blanquet. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 646. 1884.
This variety was known in French gardens in the middle of the sixteenth century under the name Poire Perle, and some years later also by that of Petit-Blanquet. Fruit small or very small; form rather inconstant, slightly obtuse-pyriform, or more obtuse-ovate; skin smooth and transparent and shining, clear pale yellow or of a white, waxy and pearl-like tone, sprinkled with greenish dots, with occasionally a blush of tender rose on the side next the sun; flesh very white, semi-fine, breaking and firm; juice rarely abundant, saccharine, savory although only slightly perfumed; a second class dessert pear; Aug.
Petit Catillac. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:3, fig. 98. 1878.
Kleiner Katzenkopf. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 242. 1889.
This pear is probably of German origin. It has points of resemblance in common with the old French Catillac but is distinguished by its size, being often less than that of the latter, its time of maturity being earlier, its flesh being less breaking, more saccharine and without any tartness. Fruit large, ovate-pyriform and much swelled, even in contour, green at first, sprinkled with large, regularly spaced, prominent, brown dots, the green passing to lemon-yellow at maturity, with a blush of red-brown on well-exposed fruits on the side next the sun; flesh white, coarse, semi-buttery; juice abundant, rather vinous and without any appreciable perfume; good for the kitchen; Oct. and Nov.
Petit-Chaumontel. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:519, fig. 1869.
From the old garden of the Horticultural Society of Angers, Fr., and sometimes erroneously confused with Oignon which ripens some six weeks earlier. Fruit medium, globular, very bossed and irregular in form, clear green, dotted, veined with russet and extensively washed with carmine on the side turned to the sun; flesh very white, semi-fine, breaking, gritty at center; juice sufficient, saccharine, vinous, slightly astringent; second; latter half of Aug.