PEARS. 



Ripe the beginning and to the end of October. 



Branches long and rather slender, flagelliform, with a 

 manner of growing peculiar to this tree, that is, a tendency 

 to twist round in growing upwards ; so that at a distance, 

 when planted as a standard, it may be distinguished from 

 every other sort. 



This most excellent Pear is at present but little known 

 in many parts of England. It is, however, well known, and. 

 extensively cultivated in the north-west counties of Lancas- 

 ter, Chester, and Hereford. In the latter county, particu- 

 larly at Shobden Court, and at Garnstone, it is grown in 

 abundance, both on walls, espaliers, and on open stand- 

 ards, where it furnishes constant crops of most perfect 

 fruit, fully equal in goodness to those of the Crasanne, which 

 it somewhat resembles. It was raised many years ago at 

 Aston, in Cheshire. 



42. AUTUMN BERGAMOT. Miller, No. 32. Pom. Mag. 

 t. 120. 



^ } Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 52. 76. 



Common Bergamot, [ ^ 62 accordi to the 



York Bergamot, j pom ^ 



Fruit small, approaching the middle size, depressed, glo- 

 bular, about two inches and a half deep, and the same in di- 

 ameter. Eye small, open, in a regular-formed shallow 

 depression. Stalk short and thick, inserted in a rather 

 wide funnel-shaped cavity. Skin rather rough, yellowish 

 green; but of a dull brown on the sunny side, and full of 

 gray scabrous specks. Flesh whitish, melting, a little gritty 

 next the core, with a sugary and richly perfumed juice. 



Ripe the beginning of October, and good till the end. 



This succeeds well on both the Pear and the Quince. 



I have not quoted Duhamel, as he has given two figures 

 of his Bergamotte d' Autornne, neither of which appears to- 

 correspond with our Autumn Bergamot. 



It is one of the best Pears of the season, and it is also one 

 of the most ancient, supposed, to have been in England 

 ever since the time of Julius Csssar. 



43. BELLE ET BONNE. Pom. Mag, t. 118. 

 Belle et Bonne. JBaumann's Catalogue. 



Scheme und Gute. Taschenbuch, p. 431., according to 

 the Pom. .Mag. 



Fruit large, globular, depressed, about three inches deep, 

 and three inches and a half in diameter. Eye large, open, 

 with short crumpled segments of the calyx, in a shallow and 



