PEARS, 389 



inserted in a very small cavity. Skin covered with 

 russet quite round, and coloured with brown on the 

 sunny side. Flesh pale yellow, buttery, and melting. 

 Juice sugary, musky, and perfumed. 



In eating from March till May. 



This succeeds on both the Pear and the Quince. 



113. GILOGIL. Pom. Mag. t. 65. 



Gile-6-gile. Noisette Manuel Complet. p. 531. 



Gros Gobet. 1 Of some French Gardens, according 



Dagobert. J to the Pom. Mag. 



Fruit large, somewhat obovate, flattened at the top, 

 and tapering but little to the stalk, about three inches 

 and a quarter deep, and three inches and a half in dia- 

 meter. Eye large, and deeply sunk in a plaited radiated 

 hollow. Stalk an inch long, rather deeply inserted in 

 an uneven and mostly two-lipped cavity. * Skin a deep 

 close russet, rather deeply tinged with a brownish red 

 on the sunny side. Flesh white, juicy, breaking, a little 

 gritty, sweet, and pleasant. 



In use from December till March or April. 



A valuable winter Pear, although not of first-rate ex- 

 cellence. It is very handsome, and an excellent bearer. 

 It will succeed as an open standard in a sheltered warm 

 situation. Fine specimens are thus produced in the 

 Horticultural Garden at Chiswick ; but it is better, per- 

 haps, to grow it against an east or south-east wall. 



114. HOLLAND BERGAMOT. Miller, No. 71- 



Bergamotte d'Hollande. Duhamel, No. 53. t. 25. 



Bergamotte d'Ale^on. Ib. 



Amoselle. Ib. 



Lord Cheney's. Of some Gardens. 

 Fruit large, of a regular roundish figure, but some- 

 what broadest at the crown, about three inches deep, and 

 nearly the same in diameter. Eye small, divested of its 

 calyx, sunk pretty deep in a depressed and wide basin. 

 Stalk one inch and a half long, slender, crooked, inserted 



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