310 PEAR. 



of November, sooner or later according^ to the season, 

 and keeps from three to five weeks in the fruitery. 



The fruit are full middle size, regular roundish 

 shape, like the autumn bergamot, but not so flat 

 at the stalk, which is short and thick. Colour light 

 brown, deepest on the sun side ; the whole yellowish 

 when ripe. The pulp is mellow, juicy, and well 

 flavoured ; and is certainly a most excellent fruit 

 when well ripened. 



The habit and growth of the tree is like its parent, 

 the autumn bergamot, from a seed of which it was 

 raised, by a Colonel Gansel of this county. It is 

 also called, or rather miscalled, Broi^as's bergamot, 

 from a person of that name, a nurseryman at Ches- 

 hunt, Herts, who knowing something of its origin, 

 gave it surreptitiously his own name. 



Though the tree forms a handsome standard of 

 the second class, it should always be a trained tree, 

 the weight of the fruit rendering it unfit for exposure 

 to the wind. The tree is but a shy bearer till it 

 becomes aged ; and then the fruit are much smaller. 

 The finest crop of this fruit the author ever saw, was 

 from it being worked on a swan's egg pear, which 

 was previously lopped for the purpose. And here 

 the writer would observe on this instance, and many 

 similar instances which he has been witness to in 

 his practice, that many improvements may be made 

 in double and cross-working pears and other fruit, to 

 correct the luxuriance or debilities of each other. 

 It has been stated by some authors, that " this pear 

 is much too tender to bear as an open standard in 



