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Bergamotte Picquot. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 671. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:131, 

 fig. 162. 1878. 



A French pear of uncertain origin. Fruit medium, globular-conic, very clear green 

 changing to yellow, sprinkled with numerous indistinct dots of grayish-brown; flesh white, 

 fine, buttery, melting, juicy, sugary; good, first if its season were more prolonged; Oct. 

 Bergamotte Ploskui. i. la. Hon. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880. 



A variety grown on the Northern plains of the steppes of Russia where the summer 

 is fully as dry and hot as that of Iowa and the winter far more severe. On trial at the 

 College Farm, Ames, Iowa, in 1880. It seems to unite well with the apple when root- or 

 top-grafted. 

 Bergamotte Poiteau. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:21, fig. 107. 1878. 



Poiteau (des Frangais) 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:538, fig. 1869. 



This variety came from a seed bed made by M. Poiteau, Fr., and was first reported 

 in 1851. Fruit medium, globular-obtuse, irregular in outline, golden yellow, sown with 

 very numerous and extremely fine gray and brown dots, generally washed with dull red 

 on the side next the sun; flesh very white, fine, melting, watery; juice very saccharine, 

 slightly acid and musky, agreeable; first; Oct. 

 Bergamotte Pomme. i. Guide Prat. 84. 1876. 



Fruit rather large, globular-oblate, dull yellow; flesh very juicy, vinous; first; Oct. 

 and Nov. 

 Bergamotte du Quercy. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 1:113, fig- 57- 1872. 



Mas obtained grafts of this pear about 1847 from the Duke of Arenberg; he had seen 

 a quotation from Van Mons catalog of 1823 in which it was described. Fruit medium or 

 nearly medium, nearly globular, rather obtuse at the two ends, regular in outline, attaining 

 its greatest thickness at the middle; skin slightly thickened, very pale green, sown with 

 very small, brown dots scattered irregularly; flesh quite white, fine, firm yet melting, 

 streaming with sweet juice, more or less perfumed according to the season ; end of Sept. 

 Bergamotte Reinette. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:254, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:93, 

 fig. 143. 1878. 



Raised by M. Boisbunel, nurseryman at Rouen, Fr., who introduced it in 1857. 

 Fruit small, Bergamot-shaped; skin at first bright green, marked with large, russet patches 

 but changing to yellow as it ripens; flesh half -tender, with abundant sweet juice which has 

 a brisk acidity, like the Reinette apple; quality hardly first-rate and variable, but to be 

 recommended for its early and long season; late Aug. 

 Bergamotte de Rouen, i. Guide Prat. 84. 1876. 



Fruit large; recommended as being of good quality by the Society of Horticulture oi 

 Rouen; April to June. The tree is vigorous and fertile. 



Bergamotte Rouge, i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:162, PI. XIX, fig. 6. 1768. 

 2. Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 334. 1831. 



This pear is of ancient and unknown origin. It was mentioned by Le Lectier in 1628, 

 Merlet in 1675, and Duhamel in 1768, but without history. Fruit rather large, globular, 

 acute-pyriform, irregular, mammillate at calyx, greenish-yellow, washed with brownish-red 

 on the side next the sun, and marked with stripes of the same color, the whole covered with 



