Published in the London Horticultural Society’s Catalogue of Fruits, 1842. Fruit medium size, globular, brown and russet; buttery; second; Dec. and Jan.
Chaploux. 1. Mas Le Verger 1:169, fig. 83. 1866-73. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:547. 1867.
Distributed from nurseries at Vilvorde-lez-Bruxelles, Bel., in 1859. Fruit small, globular-turbinate, acute, the stem being perpendicular to and continuous with the fruit; color dark green, touched with brown russet; flesh yellowish-white, veined with green, fine, buttery, very sugary; first quality for cider and for drying; Dec. and Jan.
Chapman. 1. Mag. Hort. 14:84. 1848. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 717. 1890.
Originated in Philadelphia or its vicinity. Shown at the exhibition of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society held at Philadelphia, September, 1847. Fruit medium, obovate-pyriform, yellow, with brown and green dots; flesh white, semi-melting, astringent; Sept.
Chaptal. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:547. 1867.
Raised in Paris by Michel-Christophe Hervy, about 1800. Fruit very large, oblong, obovate-obtuse-pyriform, yellow-ochre, dotted with greenish-brown, marbled with fawn, washed with dark red on the side facing the sun; flesh white, semi-fine and semi-melting, gritty at the center; juice sufficient, sugary, acidulous; second.
Charles Bivort. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:549, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:151, fig. 460. 1880.
A seedling of Van Mons fruited prior to 1842. Fruit medium, globular-ovate-obtuse; bright green changing to orange-yellow at maturity, marbled and dotted with bright brown, and clouded with olive-russet on the side of the sun; flesh whitish, coarse, semi-breaking, gritty at core; juice rather wanting, sugary, vinous; second; Oct.