546 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



Stalk, thick, an inch long, inserted without depression. Flesh, white, 

 crisp, juicy, with a sweet and aromatic flavour. 



An excellent culinary pear ; in use from December to April. The 

 tree is an abundant bearer, and succeeds well as a standard. 



It was raised by M. Hervy, of the Luxembourg Garden, Paris, in 1800, and was 

 named in honour of Comte Chaptal, the celebrated chemist and Minister of the 

 Interior under Napoleon I. 



CHARLES D'AUTRICHE (Archduc Charles). Fruit, large, 

 roundish, handsome, and regularly formed. Skin, greenish yellow, 

 thickly covered with russety specks and thin patches of grey russet, 

 and with a few streaks of faint red on the side next the sun. Eye, 

 open, set in a smooth, shallow basin. Stalk, an inch long, scarcely at 

 all depressed. Flesh, tender, half-buttery, and melting, juicy, sugary, 

 and richly flavoured. 



A dessert pear ; ripe in October. This name is by the French some- 

 times applied to Napoleon, but erroneously. 



Charles Smet. See Angelique de Bordeaux. 



CHARLES VAN HOOGHTEN. Fruit, large ; roundish oval, even 

 in its outline. Skin, of a uniform straw-colour, considerably covered 

 with large russety dots, and traces of pale brown russet. Eye, wide 

 open. Stalk, an inch long, slender. Flesh, white, coarse-grained, 

 gritty, half-melting, and not very juicy ; sweet and rather richly 

 flavoured, and with a musky perfume. 



Ripe in the end of October and November. 



CHARLES VAN MONS. Fruit, large, three inches and three- 

 quarters long, and two inches and three-quarters wide ; oblong- 

 obovate, blunt towards the stalk, uneven, and rather bossed, and 

 ribbed near the eye. Skin, quite smooth, bright green, and strewed 

 with a few minute dots, and with a russet patch about the eye. Eye, 

 large and open, with stout, erect segments placed in a rather deep 

 ribbed basin, from which the ribs extend over the crown. Stalk, an 

 inch and a half long, slender, set in a deep round cavity. Flesh, 

 yellowish, rather coarse-grained, with a cold acidity, and not much 

 flavour. 



A pear of very little merit ; ripe in October and November. 



I do not know the origin of this pear, and I have never seen it described in any 

 other work on pomology. I received it from M. Papeleu, of Wetteren, in 1847. 



CHARLI BASINER. Fruit, obovate. Skin, pale green, dotted 

 and clouded with brown russet, and changing as it ripens to yellowish 

 green. Eye, small and open, with sharp segments, slightly depressed. 

 Stalk, about an inch long, slender, and not depressed. Flesh, white, 

 very juicy and sugary. 



Ripe in the middle and end of October. 



CHARLOTTE DE BROUWER, Fruit, large, roundish, inclining 



