Commandant Belaieff. 1. Rev. Hort. 463. 1906.
Placed on the market as a new pear by M. Bruant, Poitiers, Fr., in 1906. Fruit large, wrinkled and reddened all over; flesh rather fine, juicy, very sugary, strongly scented; first; end of Dec.
Commissaire Delmotte. 1. Ann. Pom. Belge 5:15, fig. 1857. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:591, fig. 1867.
Gained by Xavier Grégoire, Jodoigne, Bel.; ripened first in 1852 or ’53. Fruit medium and above, globular-turbinate-obtuse, slightly bossed; skin wrinkled, lemon-yellow, dotted and veined with fawn, shaded with gray-russet and with numerous very small, blackish-gray stains; flesh yellowish, coarse, semi-melting, gritty at core; juice abundant, sugary, acid, with a delicate scent; second; Nov. to Jan.
Commodore. 1. Mag. Hort. 8:60. 1842. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 570. 1857.
Van Mons seedling No. 1218. Fruit medium, very regular, obovate, round and full at the crown, yellow, with patches of red and russet; flesh buttery, melting, rich, sweet and good; Oct. and Nov.
Compotbirne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:164. 1856. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 198. 1889.
Of French origin, attributed to 1675. Fruit medium, pyriform, pale yellow, entirely covered with fine, cinnamon-colored russet, becoming a dark golden green on ripening; good; Feb.
Compote d’Été. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:107, fig. 342. 1880.
Mas states he received this variety in France from T. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, Eng. Fruit large, ovate, bright green, speckled with brown dots, turning to pale yellow on ripening; flesh white, rather fine, semi-buttery; juice scarcely sufficient but sugary, a little acid, slightly perfumed.