THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 391 



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, fig- l86 9- 



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. 1. Field Pear Cult. 280. 1858. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:208, fig. 

 1869. 



Originated in early half of last certury. 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. 1. 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. 1. 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. 1. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 390, PI. VII. 1S91. 



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. 1. Dochnahl Fii/rr. Obsikunde 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. 1. Brookshaw Pomona2i'P\. 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. 1. Elliott Fr. Book 369. 1854. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 294. 1866. 



Bergamotte Tardive de Gansel. 3. Mas Le Verger y.Pt. 1, 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. 



