Charnock. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 547. 1884. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 194. 1889.
A Scotch dessert pear. Fruit small, pyriform, greenish-yellow in the shade and dark, dull red on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish, semi-buttery, juicy, sweet, aromatic; Sept.
Chat Brulé. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:247. 1768. 2. Miller Gard. Dict. 3: 1807. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:555, fig. 1867.
Duhamel du Monceau writing in 1768 mentions two varieties bearing the name Chat Brulé or Burnt Cat. Of these the second is the Chat Brulé described under that name by Leroy, ripening in November and the first is the Dutch variety Kamper Venus, ripening late in the winter. Each of these has been known also as Kamper Venus. Fruit medium, globular-pyriform, smooth, shining, pale yellow where shaded, and washed with red where exposed to the sun; flesh very white, rather coarse, breaking; juice rather wanting, rarely very sweet, generally without perfume; good only for cooking; Nov. and Dec.
Chattanooga. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 43. 1866.
Originated at Brookline, Mass., by S. A. Shurtleff; fruited first in 1863. Fruit medium to large, truncate, dark green; flesh fine, melting, juicy, sweet, perfumed; good; Oct.
Chaudfontaine. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:59, fig. 510. 1881. 2. Guide Prat. 81. 1895.
Disseminated by M. Galopin, a nurseryman at Liege, Bel., in 1865. Fruit large or rather large, pyriform, a little swelled, water-green almost entirely covered with cinnamon-colored russet, changing to pale yellow on maturity and the russet to golden on the side to the sun; flesh whitish, semi-fine, semi-breaking, full of juice, sweet and musky; good for household use; Oct.
Chaumontel. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 718. 1869. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 163. 1920.
Besi de Chaumontel. 3. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:199, Pl. XL. 1768. 4. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:266, fig. 1867.