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reported about 1875 as follows: Fruit large or very large, obtuse-pyriform, swelled, bossed, 

 bright yellow, very much covered with fine dots and gray marblings and on the sun-touched 

 side often tinted with carmine or brick-red more or less intense; flesh white or yellowish, 

 semi-fine, crisp, very melting, juicy, rich, sugary, perfumed; spring. 

 Chaumontel Swan Egg. 1. Mag. Hort. 5:304. 1839. 



Raised by John Williams, Pitmaston, Eng., from seed of Chaumontel impregnated 

 with the pollen of Swan Egg. Fruit medium, obovatc, russet; flesh rich and sugary; Oct. 

 Chaumontelle d'fite. 1. Gard. Chron. 1207. 1873. 2. Guide Prat. go. 1876. 



Presumably a French pear, having been received in England from Orleans in the 

 autumn of 187 1. Fruit large or very large; flesh semi-melting or juicy, sugary and of a 

 distinct perfumed flavor. 



Chelmsford. 1. Mag. Hort. 6:18. 1840. 2. Ibid. 7:169. 1841. 3. Downing Fr. Trees 

 Am. 719. 1869. 



Originated on the farm of Zaccheus Wright, Chelmsford, Mass., early in the nine- 

 teenth century. It has been known also under the names Tyngsboro and Mogul Summer. 

 Fruit of the largest size, globular-obtuse- pyriform, yellow, red cheek; flesh coarse, sweet; 

 good for cooking; Sept. 

 Cher a Dames (Knoop). 1. Knoop Fructologie 1:105. J iS' PI- V. 1 77 1 . 



This pear although illustrated by Knoop under the name Chair a Dame is not iden- 

 tical with the variety described under that name in this work orbyL-eroy. Fruit medium, 

 somewhat oblong, diminishing toward the stalk and becoming acute, globular in lower half, 

 flattened around the calyx which is not deeply sunken; when ripe the skin is uniformly 

 yellow and blushed on the side of the sun with a beautiful red; flesh soft, rather gritty, 

 succuent and of a very agreeable flavor; Aug. and Sept. 



Cherroise. 1. Leroy Did. Pom. 1:537, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:169, %■ 4°9- 

 1880. 



This wilding was found in a wood in the Commune of Cherre\ Maine-et-Loire, Fr., 

 and was first propagated about 1848. Fruit medium, ovate-obtuse, mammillate; skin rough 

 to the touch, yellow-ochre, with patches of fawn-colored russet, washed when ripe with a 

 blush of vermilion red on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, breaking; 

 juice sufficient, sugary, rather savory; second; Jan. and Feb. 

 Chesill. 1. Parkinson Par. Tcr. 592. 1629. 



Mentioned by John Parkinson in 1629 as a "delicate mellow pear, even melting as it 

 were in the mouth of the eater, although greenish on the outside." 

 Chilton. 1. Mass. Hori. Soc. Rpt. 45. 1866. 



A seedling raised and fruited by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., and exhibited to 

 the Fruit Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1866. Fruit medium, 

 turbinate, brown-russet; flesh sweet, juicy and buttery, with high flavor; described by 

 the promoter as very fine; Oct. 

 China. 1. Gard. Chron. 1095. 1867. 



Of Chinese origin. Reported in 1867 to be full of promise in Queenstown, Australia, 

 and to have been growing in the neighboring British Colony of New South Wales for many 

 years. Fruit large, many weighing 16 or 17 ounces; shape variable, breadth being sometimes 



