PEARS. 





RED BERGAMOT. PR. CAT. 

 Bergamotte rouge. Roz. Duh. 



This pear is round, being near two inches in height and 

 twenty-four to twenty-five lines in diameter, but diminishing 

 in some cases next the stem, and becoming elongated until it 

 attains a length of twenty-seven or twenty-eight lines, when 

 it assumes the shape of a top ; the peduncle is large and only 

 six to nine lines in length, and frequently inserted within a 

 small cavity ; the skin is of a yellowish fawn colour, a little 

 rough to the touch, and the part next the sun acquires a tint 

 of dull red ; the flesh is rather breaking, and of a rich and 

 rather perfumed flavour ; the seeds are pretty dark brown, and 

 the fruit ripens at the end of October or in the month of No- 

 vember. 



In the New Duhamel it is remarked, that there appears to 

 have been another variety confounded with this in the first edi- 

 tion of that work, which is therein stated to ripen about the 

 middle of September, and that it is called in some nurseries 

 Cratanne dete. I am not able at present to say whether the 

 present one and the variety described under the same name, 

 by Mr. Coxe, are synonymous ; but as I have both in my col- 

 lection, I shall soon be enabled to determine that point. 



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SUMMER BERGAMOT. PR. CAT. EVEL. MIL. FOR. 



Bergam* He d'ttt. Quin. Roz. Duh. Mil. 



Milan de la Beuvriere. Quin. Evel. Roz. Duh., both editions. 



Mi an, and Milan blanc. 



Hamden't Ber^amot Mil svn. 



Be-gamotte d' Angleter.e, > M n 

 Bergamoltt d< Hampden, \ w ' u 



This pear is of turbinate form ; its height is two inches and 

 ten lines, and its diameter two inches and a half, with a large 

 stem six lines in length, which is placed at the bottom of a 

 small cavity ; the eye at the opposite extremity is also in a ca- 



