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resemblance in form, texture, flavor and seed to the Autumn Bergamot of Col. Carr." 

 Fruit above medium, short-pyriform or turbinate, as broad as it is high ; flesh rather coarse, 

 very tender, melting, juicy, with a refreshing and agreeable flavor; desirable; Oct. 

 Clarksville. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 134. 1920. 



Original tree about 90 years old. Introduced by Sunny Slope Nursery, Hannibal, Mo. 

 Claude Blanchet. 1. Guide Prat. 54. 1895. 2. Baltet Cult. Fr. 405. 1908. 



A gain of Claude Blanchet, Vienne, Fr., and listed in the Journal de la Socictc Xaiio)iale 

 et Centrale d' Horticulture de France in 1883. Fruit small or medium - , ovate-obtuse and 

 rather swelled, green washed with yellow; flesh whitish, semi-fine, juicy, sugary and acidu- 

 lous; good; Aug. 

 Claude Mollet. 1. Guide Prat. 90. 1876. 



Fruit large, oval-shortened; first; Aug. and Sept. 

 Clay. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 5. 1843. 2. Mag. Hort. 11:437. i s 45- 3- Downing. 

 Fr. Trees Am. 721. 1869. 



One of Governor Edwards' seedlings, exhibited before the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society in 1843. Fruit medium, roundish-oblate, sometimes pyriform, waxen- 

 yellow, blushed with crimson and sprinkled with brown or crimson dots; flesh whitish, rather 

 coarse, granular, juicy, sweet; good; Oct. 

 Clemence de Lavours. 1. Mas Le Verger 1:71, fig. 42. 1866-73. 



A wilding found in the Commune of Lavours, Department Ain, Fr. Fruit medium, 

 pyriform, lemon-yellow; flesh melting, perfumed; first; winter. 

 Clemence van Rumbeck. 1. Guide Prat. 62. 1895. 



Presumably Dutch. Fruit medium or large, nearly round, maroon-russet on yellow; 

 flesh yellowish, fine, melting; first; Nov. and Dec. 

 Clement Bivort. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:569, fig. 1867. 



Obtained by Alexandre Bivort, director of the nurseries of the Society Van Mons at 

 Geest-Saint-Remy, in the gardens of the Company, and first placed on the market in 1858. 

 Fruit medium, globular-oblate, orange-yellow, sprinkled with some gray dots, clouded 

 with fawn especially on the side of the sun; flesh whitish, melting, juicy, sugary, acidulous 

 and sourish, with a strong, agreeable perfume of anis; first; Nov. and Dec. 

 Clementine. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:136. 1856. 2. Gard. Chron. 1038, fig. 

 1859. 



Seedling of Van Mons, 1833. Fruit large, obtuse-pyriform, golden- yellow, with dots 

 of reddish-brown, slightly reddened on side next the sun; flesh white, moderately fine- 

 grained, melting; juice abundant and perfumed; good; Sept. 

 Clinton. 1. Mag. Hort. 8:60! 1842. 2. Ibid. 17:263. 1851. 



Seedling of Van Mons. Fruit large, light yellow; flesh soft, buttery and good but not 

 high flavored; Nov. 

 Cloche de Wittenberg. 1. Guide Prat. 90. 1876. 



Fruit large, turbinate-obovate, dark lemon-yellow, lightly washed with red; flesh 

 breaking; for kitchen use; Oct. and Nov. 



Coit Beurre. 1. Horticulturist 19:110, figs, i, 2. 1864. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 722, 

 fig;. 1869. 



