Camak. 1. Gard. Mon. 2:320. 1860. 2. Guide Prat. 70. 1895.
Originated with J. Camak, Athens, Ga., and first reported in 1860. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, yellowish-green, slightly washed with carmine; flesh fine, juicy, sugary; good; Sept.
Cambacérès. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:523, fig. 1867.
Distributed by Charles Baltet, Troyes, Fr., about 1861, without any specification of origin. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, one side generally more swelled than the other, golden yellow, dotted and marbled with russet; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting; juice very abundant and very sweet, refreshingly acidulous, with a delicate aroma; first; Oct.
Camerling. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:524, fig. 1867. 2. Guide Prat. 108. 1876.
A seedling of Van Mons which first bore fruit in 1842. Fruit medium, oblong-obtuse-pyriform, bossed and somewhat swelled; skin thick, wrinkled, yellow-ochre, dotted with russet, much washed with gray-bronze and clouded with brown-red on the side next the sun; flesh whitish, often doughy; juice sweet, agreeable; more frequently third than second class; Oct.
Camille de Rohan. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 542. 1884.
Fruit medium, pyriform, green changing to yellow-green on ripening, with numerous russety dots; flesh white, with a pinkish tinge, fine-grained, melting, vinous and of good flavor; Dec. and Jan.
Canandaigua. 1. Mag. Hort. 16:36, 153. 1850. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 714. 1869.
Judge Atwater of Canandaigua, New York, brought cions of this pear from Connecticut in 1806. It was exhibited at the Pomological Congress in New York in 1849 under the name Catherine but there being already one or more pears known by that name it was deemed well to change its name to avoid confusion. Fruit medium, irregular, elongated-acute-pyriform, lemon-yellow, sometimes red on the sunny side; flesh white, fine, melting and buttery, sugary, high flavor; handsome and excellent; Sept.