a large tree. Leaf, medium, oval, regularly serrate. 

 Origin, discovered at Ezee near Loches, France, in 1838, 

 by M. Jamain, of Paris. A pear of quite good quality 

 and rather undeservedly in the background. The 

 British name is correctly a synonym. 



BROOMPARK. Her.Pom.II.,$i. Dessert January 

 medium, 2 J by 2 J, Bergamotte shape, flattened, uneven. 

 Skin, rough. Colour, orange yellow, almost covered 

 with very fine golden russet. Flesh, pale yellow, slightly 

 transparent, half melting, extremely sweet with vinous 

 flavour. Eye, closed in a moderately deep basin. Stem, 

 rather long, woody, in a slight cavity. Growth, rather 

 staggling, moderate ; fertility, good. Leaf, large, oval 

 little upfolded, entire or irregularly serrate. Origin, 

 raised by Thos. Andrew Knight, first fruited in 1830, 

 and named after Broompark, near Canterbury. This 

 is now seldom grown as it is rather small for modern 

 tastes, but on a good soil it is excellent. 



Caillot Rose : see Summer Rose. 



CALEBASSE BOSC. Verger III., 138. Dessert, 

 September to October, large, 2f by 4 J, very long calebasse 

 form, uneven. Skin, smooth, with fine russet. Colour, 

 rich golden brown entirely covered with russet. Flesh, 

 yellowish, very tender, juicy, perfumed. Eye, wide 

 open like a clove. Stem, slender, rather long, woody. 

 Growth poor and straggling, not spurring well ; fertility 

 good. Leaf, rather large, round oval, almost entire, 

 little upfolded, turns dull crimson red. Origin, a seed- 

 ling found by Van Mons in the garden of M. Swates, at 

 Linkebeeke. An excellent fruit doing well as a standard, 

 but has the great fault of being too liable to scab. This 

 pear is often wrongly called Beurre* Bosc. 



Calebasse Vasse : see Beurre Capiaumont. 



CATILLAC. Her. Pom. I., 15. (Pound pear.) G. 

 Katzenkopf. Culinary, till April, 3j by 3j. Shape, 

 Bergamotte, nearly even. Skin smooth, colour dull 



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