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clear yellow, rather greenish, dotted with russet; flesh whitish, semi-fine and semi-melting, 
exempt from grit; juice rather lacking, sweet; third; Sept. 
Fusée d’Hiver. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:205, fig. 1869. 
First described by Merlet in 1690. Fruit above medium and sometimes less, long and 
bossed, somewhat obtuse, wrinkled, clear green, freely dotted, mottled with gray-russet; 
flesh white, semi-melting; juice abundant, rather sugary, slightly acid, without pronounced 
scent; third; Feb. and Mar. 
Gabourell Seedling. 1. Field Pear Cult. 280. 1858. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 23208, fig. 
1869. 
Originated in early half of last century. Fruit below medium, globular, bossed, mam- 
millate, yellowish-green, speckled with gray dots; flesh yellowish, coarse, breaking, gritty; 
juice rather lacking, sweet, vinous, slightly perfumed; third; Nov. to Jan. 
Gakovsky. 1. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:246. 1903. 
Introduced from Russia in 1879. Tree extremely hardy. Fruit medium, pyriform, 
greenish-yellow, stem long; flesh dingy white, fine-grained, buttery, juicy, mild, vinous, 
but not rich; good. 
Galston Muirfowl Egg. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 583. 1884. 
Scotch. Fruit below medium, short-obovate, flattened at calyx, greenish-yellow, 
covered with thin, pale-brown russet, mottled with red on the side of the sun; flesh yellowish, 
tender, sweet and juicy, with a peculiar aroma; excellent; Sept. 
Gans. 1. U.S. D.A. Rpt. 390, Pl. VII. 1801. 
Found by Joseph Gans in a wood near Cheviot, O., in 1871. Fruit large, pyriform, 
yellow, with faint brownish cheek on sunny side; stem slender, rather long, in a slight 
depression; calyx open, in a shallow basin; flesh tender, melting, juicy; Aug. 
Gdnsekopf. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:148. 1856. 
North German, 1773. Fruit medium, conic, smooth and shining, green, changing to 
yellow, with brownish-red blush; flesh breaking, juicy, sweet, aromatic; first; Oct. and Nov. 
Gansel Bergamot. 1. Brookshaw Pomona2:Pl.L. 1817. 2. Pom. Mag.1:35,Pl. 1828. 
Diamant-peer. 3. Knoop Fructologie 1:92, 135. 1771. 
Bergamote Gansel. 4. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:239, fig. 1867. 
Raised from seed of Autumn Bergamot by Lieutenant-General Gansel near Colchester, 
Eng., in 1768. Fruit medium, globular-oblate, greenish-yellow on the shaded side, reddish- 
brown on the side of the sun, dotted and marbled with russet, sometimes washed with red; 
flesh white, buttery, melting, a little gritty around the core; juice abundant, sugary, vinous, 
slightly musky and acid; first; Oct. and Nov. 
Gansel Late Bergamot. 1. Elliott Fr. Book 369. 1854. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 294. 1866. 
Bergamotte Tardive de Gansel. 3. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 1, 125, fig. 61. 1866-73. 
Gansel Late Bergamot was raised from seed by a Mr. Williams, Pitmaston, Eng. 
Fruit similar in shape and size to Gansel Bergamot, green, thickly covered with russet 
dots and freckles which sometimes form patches, yellow-green when ripe, flesh white, rather 
coarse and gritty, not very juicy nor melting in England; in France and America, however, 
it seems to become more juicy, melting and rich, vinous and highly perfumed; good to very 
good; Nov. and Dec. 
