502 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



Bergamotte d'Hiver. See Easter Beurre. 



BERGAMOTTE D'HOLLANDE (Bergamotte d'Alenqon; Berga- 

 motte de Fougere; Beurre d'Alenqon; Amoselle ; Musquine de Bre- 

 tagne ; Holland Bergamot ; Lord Cheney's ; Sara ; Hollandische 

 Bergamotte}. Fruit, large, three inches wide, and two inches and 

 three-quarters high ; roundish, and flattened. Skin, green at first, but 

 changing as it ripens to clear yellow, and marked with several brown 

 russet spots. Eye, small, set in a wide and deep basin. Stalk, an 

 inch and a half long, slender, curved, and inserted in a small and fur- 

 rowed cavity. Flesh, white, rather gritty, and coarse-grained, crisp, 

 juicy, and pleasantly flavoured. 



A dessert pear of second-rate quality, in use from March till June, 

 but may be used before that period for cooking. The tree is vigorous 

 either on the pear or quince, but to bring the fruit to perfection it 

 requires a wall, which, however, it does not merit. 



BERGAMOTTE DE JODOIGNE. A small Bergamot-shaped fruit, 

 with a yellow skin, dotted all over with russet dots. The flesh is 

 tender, melting, rather gritty at the core, juicy, sweet, and with an 

 agreeable perfume. 



Its greatest merit is its long keeping, being in use up till May; but, 

 like all late pears, it is hardly worth growing. 



BERGAMOTTE LESELBE. Fruit, below medium size, two 

 inches and a half broad, and the same in height ; Bergamot-shaped. Skin, 

 dark green at first, but changing as it ripens to golden yellow, speckled 

 with cinnamon-coloured russet, and strewed with darker brown dots, 

 particularly towards the eye, and tinged with a crimson blush on the side 

 next the sun. Eye, open, clove-like, with short segments, set in a 

 wide and irregular basin. Stalk, half an inch long, stout, inserted on 

 the extremity of the fruit without depression, and with several fleshy 

 folds at its base. Flesh, white, coarse-grained, half melting, very 

 juicy, and nicely perfumed. 



A second-rate pear, hardly worth cultivating ; ripe in the first or 

 second week in October. 



The tree was raised by M. Leselbe, in a vineyard on the estate of Lochefuret, 

 near Tours, and it first produced fruit in 1843. 



Bergamotte Lucrative. See Fondante d'Automne. 

 Bergamotte Marbre. See Bergamotte Suisse. 



BERGAMOTTE MICO. Fruit, about medium size, two inches 

 and three-quarters broad, and the same in height ; roundish, and not 

 unlike a small Easter Beurre. Skin, greenish yellow, covered with 

 freckles and dots of cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye, closed, with 

 rather long awl-shaped segments, like those of Easter Beurre, and set 

 in a shallow depression. Stalk, half an inch long, rather stout, and 



