200 DescrijHions of Select Varieties of Pears. 



abundantly, and the fruit is always fair and handsome. In 

 shape and size, it is very similar to the Urbaniste ; but it may 

 readily be detected, by one peculiarity, from almost any other 

 pear, viz., the stem; this is always much swollen at its junc- 

 tion with the tree, and it is unusually smooth, and distinctly 

 dotted with whitish specks. It succeeds well either upon the 

 quince or pear stock. Wood, brownish olive. 



Last season, we had the Doyenne Musque in fruit, and, as 

 we could not detect the least difference, either in the fruit, 

 wood, or leaves, we have ventured to set it down as a syn- 

 onyme. 



Size^ medium, about three inches long, and two and three 

 quarter inches in diameter : Form^ obovate, full at the crown, 

 and obtuse at the stem : Ski7i, fair, smooth, yellowish-green, 

 becoming paler when mature, russeted at the base of the stem, 

 slightly tinged with red on the sunny side, and covered with 

 russet specks : Stem, long, about one and a half inches, curved, 

 very thick, and much swollen at the end adjoining the branch, 

 dull brown, usually spotted with grayish white, and inserted 

 in a shallow cavity : Eye, small, and little depressed : Fleshy 

 white, fine, melting, and juicy : Flavor, sugary and sprightly, 

 with a pleasant musky aroma : Core, large : Seeds, large, 

 brown. Ripe in October. 



92. Gansel's Bergamot. Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 1842. 



Broca's Bergamot, 

 Ive's Bergamot, 

 Staunton, 

 Gurle's Beurr6, 

 Bonne Rouge, 

 Diamant, 



Gansel's Bergamot, {fig. 21,) though raised nearly a cen- 

 tury ago, is still one of our most delicious autumn pears. 

 It cannot, perhaps, be considered quite as well adapted to all 

 localities as some other varieties, but, where the situation is 

 favorable, it is a most productive and excellent fruit. Like 

 many of the older pears, its merits have been overlooked, in 

 the eagerness to possess new and recently introduced kinds. 



The Gansel's Bergamot is a pear of English origin ; and 



1- according to Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed. 1842. 



