PEAK- 



vity, which is surrounded by swellings or projections. The 

 skin is rough to the touch, of a lively green hue, scattered 

 over with fawn coloured specks, and sometimes washed with a 

 russet tint next to the sun ; the flesh is almost melting, not very 

 rich, slightly acid and pretty pleasant to the taste it is apt to 

 become stringy when the fruit is not gathered rather green. 

 The seeds are small and often abortive, and the fruit is at ma- 

 turity early in September ; the trees may be propagated with 

 equal facility on either the pear or the quince. 



In the New Duhamel, the Bergamotte d'Angleterre, or B. 

 de Hamden is described as a variety distinct from the Berga- 

 motte d'Ete, or Summer Bergamot ; but as there exist good 

 reasons to think them synonymous, I have united them under 

 the same head. The pear called Early Summer Bergamot, 

 in Mr. Coxe's work, appears to be quite a different fruit from 

 this. 



EARLY FRENCH BERGAMOT. AUTH. 

 Bergamotte precoce. DUH. 



This fruit is about two inches in diameter, and rather less in 

 its height ; it is very much flattened at the head, where the eye 

 is inserted within a deep .cavity ; the skin is dark green speck- 

 led with small brownish dots, and becomes yellow at maturity ; 

 the flesh is melting, of a sweet and agreeably perfumed fla- 

 vour ; it has however this objection to its value, that it very 

 soon becomes soft. The tree is of vigorous growth, and 

 the fruit ripens early in August ; it is much cultivated in the 

 southern departments of France, but is rare at Paris and its 

 vicinity. I have given to this pear the discriminating appella- 

 tion of French, to distinguish it from another variety which I 

 -hall now proceed to notice. 



EARLY BERGAMOT. POM. MAG. 



The pear for which the above title has been adopted by thr 

 conductors of the Pomological Magazine, they state was trans- 



