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clear yellow, rather greenish, dotted with russet; flesh whitish, semi-fine and semi-melting, 

 exempt from grit; juice rather lacking, sweet; third; Sept. 

 Fusee d'Hiver. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:205, n g- lg 69. 



First described by Merlet in 1690. Fruit above medium and sometimes less, long and 

 bossed, somewhat obtuse, wrinkled, clear green, freely dotted, mottled with gray-russet; 

 flesh white, semi-melting; juice abundant, rather sugary, slightly acid, without pronounced 

 scent; third; Feb. and Mar. 



Gabourell Seedling, i. Field Pear Cult. 280. 1858. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:208, fig. 

 1869. 



Originated in early half of last century. Fruit below medium, globular, bossed, mam- 

 millate, yellowish-green, speckled with gray dots; flesh yellowish, coarse, breaking, gritty; 

 juice rather lacking, sweet, vinous, slightly perfumed; third; Nov. to Jan. 

 Gakovsky. i. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:246. 1903. 



Introduced from Russia in 1879. Tree extremely hardy. Fruit medium, pyriform, 

 greenish-yellow, stem long; flesh dingy white, fine-grained, buttery, juicy, mild, vinous, 

 but not rich; good. 

 Galston Muirfowl Egg. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 583. 1884. 



Scotch. Fruit below medium, short-obovate, flattened at calyx, greenish-yellow, 

 covered with thin, pale-brown russet, mottled with red on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish, 

 tender, sweet and juicy, with a peculiar aroma ; excellent ; Sept. 

 Gans. i. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 390, PI. VII. 1891. 



Found by Joseph Gans in a wood near Cheviot, 0., in 1871. Fruit large, pyriform, 

 yellow, with faint brownish cheek on sunny side; stem slender, rather long, in a slight 

 depression; calyx open, in a shallow basin; flesh tender, melting, juicy; Aug. 

 Gansekopf. i. Dochnahl Fti/tr. Obstkunde 2:148. 1856. 



North German, 1773. Fruit medium, conic, smooth and shining, green, changing to 

 yellow, with brownish-red blush; flesh breaking, juicy, sweet, aromatic; first; Oct. and Nov. 

 Gansel Bergamot. i. Brookshaw Pomona 2 : PI. L. 1817. 2. Pom. Mag. 1:35, PI. 1828. 



Diamant-peer. 3. Knoop Fructologie 1:92, 135. 1771. 



Bergamote Gansel. 4. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:239, fig- 1867. 



Raised from seed of Autumn Bergamot by Lieutenant-General Gansel near Colchester, 

 Eng., in 1768. Fruit medium, globular-oblate, greenish-yellow on the shaded side, reddish- 

 brown on the side of the sun, dotted and marbled with russet, sometimes washed with red; 

 flesh white, buttery, melting, a little gritty around the core; juice abundant, sugary, vinous, 

 slightly musky and acid; first; Oct. and Nov. 

 Gansel Late Bergamot. i. Elliott Fr. Book 369. 1854. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 294. 1866. 



Bergamotte Tardivie de Gansel. 3. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. i, 125, fig. 61. 1866-73. 



Gansel Late Bergamot was raised from seed by a Mr. Williams, Pitmaston, Eng. 

 Fruit similar in shape and size to Gansel Bergamot, green, thickly covered with russet 

 dots and freckles which sometimes form patches, yellow-green when ripe, flesh white, rather 

 coarse and gritty, not very juicy nor melting in England; in France and America, however, 

 it seems to become more juicy, melting and rich, vinous and highly perfumed; good to very 

 good; Nov. and Dec. 



