Certeau d’Hiver. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:540, fig. 1867. 2. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:248. 1768.
Certeau d’Hiver, like Certeau d’Été, originated, Charles Estienne, writing in 1540, tells us, in the environs of Vitry-le-Français, in the French champagne country. Fruit medium and sometimes less, long-turbinate, swelled and contracted at summit, sometimes gourd-like in form, bright yellowish-green, dotted with fawn, washed with brown-red on side touched by the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, semi-breaking, gritty and somewhat astringent; juice abundant, sugary, perfumed; third; Dec. to Apr. or May.
Cesile. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 140. 1841.
Tree hardy, productive; fruit large, globular, flattened at the apex, red-russeted; flesh buttery; very good; Oct.
Chaigneau. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:542, fig. 1867. 2. Guide Prat. 57. 1895.
From a seed bed made in 1848 by Jacques Jalais, a nurseryman at Nantes, Fr., first published in 1858. Fruit medium, turbinate-obtuse, yellowish-green, dotted with brownish-gray; flesh white, melting; juice acidulous, sugary, refreshing, aromatic; first; Oct.
Chair-a-Dame. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:156, Pl. XVI. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:543, fig. 1867.
Le Lectier possessed in his garden at Orléans at the beginning of the seventeenth century two strains of the Chair-a-Dame. One he called Chere-a-Dame tres-hastine, and the other Chere-a-Dame. The first is very early in its ripening and the second much later. Fruit medium or less, oblong-pyriform, bossed, fairly regular; skin thin, bright yellow-green, very finely dotted with gray-russet and extensively carmined on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, breaking or semi-melting, watery, gritty at center; juice abundant, saccharine, vinous, rarely very aromatic, sometimes slightly acid; second; Aug. and Sept.
Chamness. 1. Clingman Cat. 8. 1921.
Originated with a Mr. Chamness of Timpson, Tex., possibly as a cross between Kieffer and Bartlett, and was introduced in 1913. Fruit medium, smooth, yellow; flesh melting, juicy, tender, sweet; ripens last of August.