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PEARS. 



SWISS BERGAMOT. Pk. cat. Mil. For. 



Bergamotfe Suisse. Quin. Rt)z. Diih. Mil. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 



Be7'gamotte ray^e. 



Suisse, or Strij-ed Bergamot. Evel. 



This pear is twenty-eight lines in height, and twenty-seven 

 in diameter. Its form is turbinate next the stem, which is from 

 six to twelve lines in length, and inserted in a very small cavity, 

 and sometimes in the centre of a flat space. The skin is smooth, 

 striped with green and yellow, and on the sunny side acquires 

 a slight tint of red, which is much more apparent upou the 

 yellow stripes than on the green ones. The flesh is melting, 

 sweet, and replete with juice, especially when the fruit is not 

 ripened on the tree. The seeds are light brown, wtII matured, 

 and terminate by a long point, and the fruit ripens in October. 

 The tree succeeds equally well, grafted either on the pear or 

 the quince. It is quite productive, but not partial to a very 

 hot situation. 



GANSEL'S BERGAMOT. Pr. cat. Pom. mag. For. 



? Brocas Bergamot, of various publications. 

 Ives Bergamot. 

 Bon rouge . 



The Brocas Bergamot is now supposed to be synonymous 

 with this variety, which is thus described in the Pomological 

 Magazine : 



" The wood is weak and flexuose, like that of the Brown 

 Beurre, but is covered with a kind of mealiness, as are also 

 the leaves, by which it is particularly distinguished from all 

 the Beurres and Chamontelles. The leaves are shining, flat, 

 and rather mealy : the fruit, ovate, very much flattened at the 

 crown, usually seven and a half or eight inches round, of a 

 very regular figure, quite destitute of angles : skin, dull brown 

 like that of the Brown Beurre, a little marked with dashes of 

 deeper russet : flesh, white, melting, very sweet, rich, and high 



