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pression. Flesh yellowish-white, crisp and breaking, 

 juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured. 



An excellent pear for so late in the season. Eipe in 

 April and May. 



CATILLAC (Bon Chretien d' Amiens ; Chartreuse; Grand 

 3fonarque ; Gros Gilot ; Monstrueuse de Lantles ; Teton 

 de Venus; Sell Pear ; Pound Pear}. Fruit very large, 

 flatly turbinate. Skin at first of a pale green colour, 

 changing to lemon-yellow, with a tinge of brownish-red 

 next the sun, and covered with numerous large russet 

 specks. Eye open. Stalk an inch and a half long. Flesh 

 white, crisp, gritty, and with a musk} 7 flavour. 



One of the best stewing pears, in use from December 

 to April. 



CATINKA. Fruit medium sized, obovate. Skin of a 

 fine deep lemon-yellow colour, thickly covered with large 

 cinnamon-coloured freckles and tracings of russet. Eye 

 rather small, and open. Stalk three quarters of an inch 

 long. Flesh yellowish, melting, but slightly gritty, juicy, 

 very sugary, with a rich full flavour, and a fine aroma of 

 the rose. 



A very first-rate pear, with rich saccharine juice, ripe 

 in December. 



Cellite. See Passe Colmar. 



Chambers' Large. See Uvedales St. Germain. 



Chambrette. See Virgoulcuse. 



Chapman's. See Passe Colmar. 



Chapman's Passe Colinar. See Passe Colmar. 



CHARLES D'AUTRICHE. Fruit large, roundish, hand- 

 some, 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 tlio 

 French sometimes applied to Napoleon, but erroneously. 



CHARLES VAN HOOG-HTEN. 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 



