This pear although illustrated by Knoop under the name Chair à Dame is not identical with the variety described under that name in this work or by Leroy. Fruit medium, somewhat oblong, diminishing toward the stalk and becoming acute, globular in lower half, flattened around the calyx which is not deeply sunken; when ripe the skin is uniformly yellow and blushed on the side of the sun with a beautiful red; flesh soft, rather gritty, succulent and of a very agreeable flavor; Aug. and Sept.
Cherroise. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:557, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 6:169, fig. 469. 1880.
This wilding was found in a wood in the Commune of Cherré, Maine-et-Loire, Fr., and was first propagated about 1848. Fruit medium, ovate-obtuse, mammillate; skin rough to the touch, yellow-ochre, with patches of fawn-colored russet, washed when ripe with a blush of vermilion red on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, breaking; juice sufficient, sugary, rather savory; second; Jan. and Feb.
Chesill. 1. Parkinson Par. Ter. 592. 1629.
Mentioned by John Parkinson in 1629 as a “delicate mellow pear, even melting as it were in the mouth of the eater, although greenish on the outside.”
Chilton. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 45. 1866.
A seedling raised and fruited by S. A. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., and exhibited to the Fruit Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1866. Fruit medium, turbinate, brown-russet; flesh sweet, juicy and buttery, with high flavor; described by the promoter as very fine; Oct.
China. 1. Gard. Chron. 1095. 1867.
Of Chinese origin. Reported in 1867 to be full of promise in Queenstown, Australia, and to have been growing in the neighboring British Colony of New South Wales for many years. Fruit large, many weighing 16 or 17 ounces; shape variable, breadth being sometimes as great as the length, warm yellow ground dotted all over with russet; flesh crisp, juicy, sweet, the skin having something of a musky pineapple flavor; a handsome, fragrant fruit; first for cooking; a good keeper; summer.
Chio. 1. Miller Gard. Dict. 3: 1807.