35 



THE GA?>fSEL'S BERGAMOT PEAR. 



Gansel's Bergamot. Forsyth. Hooker's Pomona Lond. 



no. 17. Ho7-t. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 53. 

 ? Brocas Bergamot. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 51. 



Among our native English autumnal Pears, this, 

 perhaps, holds the highest rank, whether we con- 

 sider its beauty, its excellence, or its prolific nature. 

 It was raised by a Lieut.-General Gansel, from seed 

 of the Autumn Bergamot, at Donneland Hall, near 

 Colchester, about the middle of the last century. 



It does not bear well as a standard, but yields 

 a tolerably certain crop on an east or south-east 

 wall, in which situation it ripens well. In the 

 middle of November it comes into eating, and con- 

 tinues in perfection about a month. 



Sometimes it attains a very large size, having 

 occasionally been seen almost a foot in circum- 

 ference. 



The Wood is weak and flexuose, like that of 

 the Brown Beurr^, but is covered with a kind of 

 mealiness, as are also the leaves, by which it is 

 particularly distnguished from all the Beurr^s and 

 Chaumontelles. 



Leaves shining, flat, rather mealy. 



Fruit ovate, very much flattened at the crown, 

 usually 7^ or 8 inches round, of a very regular 



