Comprette. 1. Horticulturist 2:174. 1847. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 726. 1869. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 552. 1884.
A Flemish seedling. It was exhibited by M. P. Wilder, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at the Society’s meeting in 1844. Fruit small, obtuse-pyriform, smooth, greenish-yellow, becoming lemon-yellow, strewed with patches and dots of russet; flesh white, buttery, melting, juicy, sweet; not of high merit; Nov.
Comstock. 1. Elliott Fr. Book 393. 1859. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 727. 1869.
An American variety which originated in Dutchess County, N. Y. Fruit medium, obovate, smooth and glossy, bright yellow, with crimson cheek; flesh white, crisp and when well ripened has a sweet and sprightly flavor; a coarse, cooking pear; Nov. to Jan.
Comte Canal de Malabaila. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:139, fig. 358. 1880.
Origin uncertain, but probably German. Fruit rather large, globular-ovate or nearly conic, bright green, with brown dots, changing to lemon-yellow and rather golden on the side of the sun; flesh white, fine, buttery, sufficient sweet juice, agreeable; first; through the winter.
Comte de Chambord. 1. Guide Prat. 110. 1876. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 215, fig. 1906.
Found at Nantes, Fr., towards the end of the nineteenth century. Fruit medium, turbinate-obtuse, enlarged at the summit, narrowed at base, yellow; flesh white, very fine, very melting and juicy, sugary and perfumed; very good; Sept. and Oct.
Comte d’Egmont. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 552. 1884.
Fruit small, obovate or turbinate, lemon-yellow, entirely covered with dots of a fine reddish-brown russet, which in some parts are so dense as to form an irregular patch particularly around the calyx; flesh yellow, melting, rather gritty, very rich, sugary, delicious; first; Nov.