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ing maturity, bright vermilion on side exposed to the sun; flesh breaking; juice rich and 

 sugary; good; July. 



Bon-Chretien d'Automne. i. Langley Pomona 131. 1729. 2. Knoop Fructologie 1:82, 

 Tab. II, fig. 1771. 



Listed by Langley as ready to be gathered Aug. 20. Knoop stated in 1771 that it 

 had the same qualities as the Bon Chretien d'et6 but that it ripens a little later. Fruit 

 large; flesh soft and friable, but juicy, pleasant and aromatic. 



Bon-Chretien Bonnamour. i. Rev. Hort. 76. 1898. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 196, 

 fig. 1906. 



Raised in 1895 by M. Guillot, Rhdne, 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-Chretien d'Espagne. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:216, PI. 46. 1768. 2. Mas 

 Le Verger 1:131, fig. 64. 1866-73. 



Spanish Warden. 3. Hogg Fruit Matt. 648. 1884. 



The origin of Bon-Chretien d'Espagne or Spanish Warden is ancient and uncertain. 

 Merlet described it in 1675, ^nd so did La Quintinye, in 1 69 2 . It was well known ; for Messrs. 

 Simon-Louis of Metz, Lorraine, gave it some forty sjmonyms 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-Chretien d'ete. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:217, PI. XLVII, fig. 4. 1768. 2. 

 Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:457, fig- 1867. 



Origin ancient and unknown but was cultivated in French gardens about the end of 

 the sixteenth centtiry, being mentioned by Olivier de Serres in 1600, and by Le Lectier of 

 Orleans 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 yellow- 

 ish, crisp, coarse-grained, very juicy and of a rich, sweet and pleasant flavor; second; early 

 Sept. 



Bon-Chretien Fondant, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 704. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 

 7:113, fig. 537. 1881. 



Bon-Chretien de Bruxelles. 3. Leroy Did. Pom. 1:453, fig. 1867. 



An ancient Flemish pear which must not be confounded with Epine dEte 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 mattirity; flesh whitish, very melting and juicy, sweet, delicately perfumed; good; Oct. 

 and Nov. 

 Bon-Chretien Frederic Baudry. i. Guide Prat. 88. 1895. 



Fruit meditun or large; flesh fine, sweet, perfumed; first; Feb. and Mar. 



