PEARS, 



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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 ver}' 

 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 

 shall now proceed to notice. 



EARLY BERGAMOT. Pom. mag. 



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

 conductors of the Pomological Magazine, they state was trans- 



