THE GANSEL'S BERGAMOT PEAR. 



GansePs Bergamot. Forsyth. Hooker's Pomona Lond. 



no. 17. Hort. 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 Beurre", but is covered with a kind of 

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

 particularly distnguished from all the Beurre'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 



