334 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Charles Cognée. 1. Bunyard-Thomas Fr. Gard. 367. 1904. 2. Baltet Cult. Fr. 345, 
fig. 247. 1908. 
Raised at Troyes, Fr. Fruit large or rather large, obtuse-pyriform; skin pinkish- 
yellow, lightly dotted with brown; flesh slightly granulous, sweet, perfumed, juicy, with a 
very agreeable flavor; first; Feb. and longer. 
Charles Ernest. 1. Rev. Hort. 292. 1889. 2. Baltet Cult. Fr. 328, fig. 224. 1908. 
3. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 163. 1920. 
Obtained by Charles and Ernest Baltet, nurserymen of Troyes, Fr., and placed in 
commerce in 1879. Fruit large, shortened pyriform, obtuse, golden-yellow, encrimsoned 
on the side next the sun, dotted with gray on the bright side and with green on the shaded; 
flesh white, fine, melting, very juicy, sugary, rich, perfumed; first; Nov. and Dec. 
Charles Frederickx. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 2:1, fig. 1854. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:550, 
fig. 1. 1867. 
In 1840 or 1841 this pear was raised in the Van Mons nursery at Louvain, Bel. Fruit 
medium, globular-ovate-pyriform, slightly obtuse and bossed, golden-yellow, dotted and 
veined with fawn, shaded and mottled with red in the sun; flesh white, buttery, sweet, 
melting, juice sufficient, sugary, very savory and musky; first; Sept. and Oct. 
Charles de Guelin. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 35:79. 1904. 
Described in the Bulletins d’Arboriculture, January, 1904. Fruit large, turbinate, 
smoky-brown; flesh yellowish-white, melting, perfumed and juicy; good; Jan. and Feb. 
Charles Smet. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 480. 1857. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:551, 
fig. 1867. 
A seedling of Van Mons. Fruit large, globular, greenish-yellow, fine, dark green 
spots, stained with blackish-brown around the stalk; flesh white, coarse, breaking, gritty 
around the core; juice abundant, saccharine, with not much flavor; second; Jan. to Mar. 
Charles van Hooghten. 1. Mag. Hort. 17:472. 1851. 2. Horticulturist 8:30, fig. 1853. 
Fruit large, even, roundish-oval, yellow, netted and patched with russet and with many 
russet dots; stem slender, fleshy at insertion; calyx open; basin shallow; flesh white, coarse- 
grained, gritty, not very juicy, sweet, rich, with a musky perfume; good; Oct. 
Charles Van Mons. 1. Mag. Hort. 16:295. 1850. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 238. 1854. 
3. Hogg Fr. Man. 546. 1884. 
Belgian, about 1847. At the second session of the Congress of Fruit Growers in 
1850 this pear was placed on the rejected list, as also it was again by the American Pomo- 
logical Society in 1854. Fruit large, oblong-obovate-obtuse, smooth, bright green, strewed 
with some minute dots; flesh yellowish, rather coarse-grained, with a cold acidity and not 
much flavor; of small merit; Oct. and Nov. 
Charli Basiner. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 546. 1884. 2. Guide Prat. 89. 1895. 
A production of J. de Jonghe of Brussels, Bel., about 1857. Fruit medium, obovate, 
pale green, dotted and clouded with brown-russet changing as it ripens to yellowish-green; 
flesh white, juicy and sugary; first; Sept. and Oct. 
Charlotte de Brouwer. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 3:33. 1855. 2. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 1, 
107, fig. 52. 1866-73. 
One of Major Espéren’s seedlings raised at Mechlin, Bel., and reported on in 183s. 
