PEARS. 



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EASTER BERGAMOT. Pr. cat. Mil. 



Winter or Easter Bergamot. Pr. cat. 25 ed. 

 Bergamotte de Pdsques. Roz. Duh. Mil. For. 

 Bergamoite d'hiver. Roz. syn. Duh. syn. 

 Bergamotte Bugi. Mil. 

 Bugi. Quin. ? Evel. 1 

 Tarling, or Terling, ^ 



Robert's keeping, > of some English writers. 



Paddington, ) 



Paddington, or Easter Bergamot, Coxe. 



This pear is almost regularly globular, in some cases par- 

 tially turbinate, being thirty-two to thirty-six lines in height ; 

 the eye is situated in a very small cavity, and most generally 

 even with the extremity of the fruit ; the stem, which is four 

 to eight lines in length, is also inserted within an extremely 

 small cavity, whose edges are quite round ; the skin, which is 

 a light green, varying to pale yellow at maturity, is speckled 

 over its whole surface with small gray dots, and acquires a 

 slight russet tinge next the sun. The flesh is half meltings 

 not very sweet, but abounds in rich juice possessing a very 

 pleasant perfume. The seeds are brown, large, round at one 

 end and pointed at the other, and in part abortive. This pear 

 is scarcely fit to be eaten before the month of April, and it 

 may be preserved until June, after which it becomes meally 

 and much wrinkled without getting soft ; the tree is vigorous, 

 and may be grafted on both the pear and the quince. 



BERGAMOT SYLVANGE. Pr. cat. N. Duh. 



Sylvanche, Roz. Bergamot sylvanche. Coxe. 



Sylvange. 



This pear has an exact turbinate form ; its height is thirty- 

 two lines and its diameter thirty. The eye is small, and in- 

 serted within a very slight depression, similar to that whence 

 the stem emanates, which does not exceed six or eight lines in 

 length ; the skin is light green even at complete maturity, in- 



