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336 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
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. 52304. 1839. 
Raised by John Williams, Pitmaston, Eng., from seed of Chaumontel impregnated 
with the pollen of Swan Egg. Fruit medium, obovate, russet; flesh rich and sugary; Oct. 
Chaumontelle @’Eté. 1. Gard. Chron. 1207. 1873. 2. Guide Prat. go. 1876. 
Presumably a French pear, having been received in England from Orléans in the 
autumn of 1871. 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 4 Dames (Knoop). 1. Knoop Fructologie 1:105, 135, Pl. V. 1771. 
This pear although illustrated by Knoop under the name Chair 4 Dame is not iden- 
tical with the variety described under that name in this work or by Leroy. 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 Dict. Pom. 1:557, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:169, fig. 469. 
1880. 
This wilding was found in a wood in the Commune of Cherré, 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. Ter. 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 
