120 



THE AUTUMN BERGAMOT PEAR. 



Autumn, or English Bergamot. S^vitzer's Fruit Gardener, 

 p. 117. Hitt's Treatise, p. 333. Miller's Dictionary. 

 Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 43. 



York Bergamot. IJort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 6'2. 



Common Bergamot. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 52. 



For the following excellent observations we have 

 again to thank Mr. Thompson. 



The Pear generally cultivated in this country 

 under the name of Autumn Bergamot is not the 

 Bergamotte d'Automne of the French, although 

 Miller and other writers have quoted it as a syno- 

 nym. The Bergamotte d'Automne has not yet 

 fruited in the Garden of the Society. There are in 

 it, however, several trees from various French autho- 

 rities, which perfectly agree with each other in their 

 wood and foliage, and so far also with the descrip- 

 tion of Duhamel, but are very different in these 

 respects from the sort here treated of. It also de- 

 serves to be noticed, that both the old and young 

 wood of all these trees of the Bergamotte d'Automne 

 canker very much in this soil and climate ; whereas 

 in the Autumn Bergamot there is not the least 

 appearance of decay. It is probable that the French 

 have not got this sort, as it has not been yet dis- 

 covered under any name among their collections 

 received into the Garden of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Nothing, however, is known of its real origin. 



