PEAKS, 



RED BERGAMOT. Pr, cat. 



Bergamofte 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 

 Crasanne detL 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, 1 shall soon be enabled to determine that point. 



SUMMER BERGAMOT. Pe. cat. Evel. Mil. For. 



Bergamotte d'ete. Quin. Roz. Duh. Mil. 



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



Milan, and M ian hlanc. 



Hamden^f Ber^amot Mil syn. 



Bergamotte d^Angleter e, > jy^^ 



Bergamotte di Hampden, y 



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

 ten lines, and its diameter two inches and aJialf, 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- 



