584 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



with a swollen protuberance on one side. Flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 sweet, and juicy. 



An excellent Scotch pear with a peculiar aroma ; ripe in the end of 

 September. 



Gambier. See Passe Colmar. 



GANSEL'S BERGAMOT (Bonne Rouge; Brocas' Bergamot ; Dia- 

 mantj Gurle's Beurre ; Ive's Bergamot ; Staunton}. Fruit, medium 

 sized, three inches wide, and two and a half to three inches long ; 

 roundish, inclining to obovate, and flattened at the apex. Skin, 

 greenish yellow on the shaded side, and reddish brown next the sun, 

 the whole thickly strewed with russety dots and specks. Eye, small 

 and open, with broad ovate reflexed segments, set in a shallow basin. 

 Stalk, short and fleshy, half an inch long, inserted in a round, very 

 shallow cavity, frequently between two bosses, or at least one. Flesh, 

 white, buttery, melting but gritty, very juicy, rich, sugary, and 

 aromatic, and having a strong musky flavour. 



A dessert pear of the highest merit ; ripe during October and 

 November. To have this delicious fruit in perfection, it is necessary 

 the tree should be planted against a south-east wall. 



The tree is a shy bearer during the first period of its growth, but 

 when it becomes aged it produces more abundantly, though the fruit is 

 of smaller size. To increase its fruitfulness, it has been recommended 

 to impregnate the flowers with the pollen of some other variety, such 

 as the Autumn Bergamot. 



It is generally believed that this variety was raised from seed of the Autumn 

 Bergamot by Lieut-General Gansel, at his seat, Donneland Park, near Colchester, 

 in 1768, and this rests upon a communication to that effect from David Jebb, Esq., 

 of Worcester, nephew of General Gansel, to Mr. Williams, of Pitmaston. Mr. 

 Lindley says, " The Bonne Rouge of the French is evidently the same sort, and 

 the name must have been given it after its having been received from that 

 country." I am unwilling that any doubt should arise as to this esteemed 

 favourite being a native fruit ; but I find, by the manuscript catalogue of the 

 Brompton Park Nursery, that both the Bonne Kouge and Brocas' Bergamot, 

 if they are synonymes of GansePs Bergamot, were cultivated there in 1753, 

 and this will give rise to a doubt as to the correctness of the above statement. 

 As this catalogue is the earliest I have been able to procure of that nursery, 

 it is possible that it was grown there at a much earlier period under both of these 

 names. 



GANSEL'S LATE BERGAMOT. Fruit, exactly similar in shape 

 to Gansel's Bergamot. Skin, green, thickly covered with russet dots 

 and freckles, which sometimes form patches ; it becomes yellowish 

 green when ripe. Eye, open, with short segments, set in a rather 

 deep saucer-like basin. Stalk, half an inch to an inch long, stout, 

 fleshy at the insertion. Flesh, white, rather coarse-grained and 

 gritty, not very juicy nor melting. 



This is only a second-rate pear, and has not the musky flavour of 

 the Gansel's Bergamot. Mr. Blackmore says " there is scarcely a 

 worse pear." 



