PEARS. 



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HOLLAND BERGAMOT. Pr. cat. For. Coxe. 



^ 7, . 7 > Roz. Duh. Mil. 



moite a Alencon, 



AmoseUe. Duh. syn. Mil. 

 Lord Cheney's. 



This is a very beautiful fruit. It is remarked by the authors 

 of the New Duhamel, that all those which they had particularly 

 noticed were of turbinate form, with an irregular surface raised 

 here and there by slight projections, and that they measured 

 three inches and three lines in height, by three inches and one 

 line at the greatest diameter. The eye was situated in a wide 

 depression, the edges of which were rather even, or presented 

 some very trivial inequalities. The stem was large, two inches 

 long : the skin wholly a light green, interspersed by numerous 

 grayish specks, and at maturity attaining a pale yellow hue : 

 the flesh, rather firm, half breaking, and abounding in pleasant 

 juice, of considerable flavour : the seeds were brown, and 

 somewhat protuberant, and the axis of the fruit in the centre of 

 the cells was hollow. This fruit begins ripening in February, 

 and may be kept till June. It appears subject to vary in 

 its shape ; for in the first edition of Duhamel it is described 

 and figured of an almost globular form, rather less in height 

 than in breadth, and measuring three inches in diameter, by 

 two inches nine lines in height. This variety is excellent, 

 when cooked or made into composts. The tree is vigorous, 

 and may be ingrafted on both pear and quince. Forsyth men- 

 tions this as a synonyme of the Autumn Bergamot, cultivated 

 in England, and of the Bergamotte d'automne of Duhamel, 

 which are themselves two different fruits ; this circumstance 

 throws doubt on the matter altogether. The Pomological 

 Magazine, on the contrary, does not quote this as a synonyme 

 of the English Autumn Bergamot, and it is therefore most 

 probably distinct. 



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