forces the oil from the oil glands. For this purpose the fruit 

 is gathered when still green, in November and December, 

 and one hundred fruits are said to yield two and a half to 

 three ounces of oil. Calabria is the country where the 

 cultivation of the tree and manufacture of the oil is chiefly 

 carried on, and in a less degree Sicily and the Riviera. 

 The name Bergamot is derived from the Italian Bergamotta, 

 a pear, and from the shape of the fruit ; the Bergamotte 

 pear itself is from the town of Bergamo, where, however, 

 the Bergamot orange is not cultivated. For the specimen 

 figured I am indebted to Thos. Hanbury, Esq., F.L.S., of 

 the Palazzo Orengo, La Mortala, near Mentone, in whose 

 splendid gardens the Bergamot fruits freely and ripens in 

 early spring. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Fruit j 2, the same cut transversely; 3, surface gland: — all of the 

 natural size. 



