Champ Riche d’Italie. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:232. 1768. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 124. 1841. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:544, fig. 1867. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 545. 1884.
Probably of Italian origin. Diel of Stuttgart devoted many pages of his Kernobstsorten to it in 1805 at which time he had received it from the neighborhood of Paris, though it had already been known for a long while at Berlin. Fruit above medium and often large, pyriform, always rather swelled below the central circumference, contracted at the summit which is often nearly acute, greenish on the shady side, yellow-ochre on the face exposed to the sun, dotted all over with brown specks; flesh whitish, semi-melting or breaking, rather fine, free from grit, juicy, sweet and perfumed; first rate for cooking and compotes but third for dessert.
Champagner Bratbirne. 1. Guide Prat. 89, 256. 1876. 2. Löschnig Mostbirnen 8, fig. 1913.
Much valued in Germany for making champagne and perry. It was grown in Baden, Württemberg, and Hesse in 1797. Fruit small, globular-turbinate, even in outline, light green turning yellow without any blush, speckled with brown-russet and finely dotted; flesh white, coarse, nearly breaking; first for perry; autumn.
Chancelier de Hollande. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:31, fig. 496. 1881.
A seedling of Van Mons. Fruit medium to large, obovate-pyriform; skin rather thick and firm, becoming a little greasy, bright green speckled with green-gray dots; on ripening the original green becomes yellow and washed with red on the exposed side; flesh whitish, a little green under the skin, rather coarse, gritty at the center, semi-melting; juice plentiful, rich in sugar, acidulous, slightly perfumed, agreeable; third; Nov.
Chancellor. 1. Mag. Hort. 19:65. 1853. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 717. 1869.
Said to have originated in Germantown, Pa., on the grounds of a Mr. Chancellor. At the Second Session of the American Pomological Congress in 1853 it was placed on the list of pears that promised well. Fruit rather large, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, greenish-yellow, sometimes blushed on the exposed side, dotted; flesh white, juicy, buttery, melting, sugary, perfumed; good; Oct. and Nov.
Chantry. 1. Mag. Hort. 9:125. 1843.