340 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
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. 1. 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 Societe Naitonale 
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. 112437. 1845. 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. 
Clémence 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, 
pytiform, lemon-yellow; flesh melting, perfumed; first; winter. 
Clémence 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. 
Clément Bivort. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:569, fig. 1867. 
Obtained by Alexandre Bivort, director of the nurseries of the Society Van Mons at 
Geest-Saint-Rémy, 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 Beurré. 1. Horticulturist 19:110, figs. 1, 2. 1864. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 722, 
fig. 1869. 
