By Mr. Luttrell. 



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Bergamot ; 'tis at first of a whitish or pale green colour in the 

 crown, pounced over with small specks of a dark brown or 

 blackish russety colour, which look brighter and ruddier, and 

 the grain turns yellowish in ripening. The fruit sweats, and 

 is a little moist or damp on the outside, and smells a little at 

 the time it is ready for the mouth ; but it never yields to the 

 thumb, and the skin doth not shrink or shrivel, unless a little 

 about the stalk. The skin is not thick in substance, nor 

 tough in the mouth, but tastes a little bitter : it colours not 

 with the sun. The Pulp is pretty white in colour, of a yield- 

 ing melting substance, well furnished with juice, which is 

 sweet and sugary, pleasant, but a little pert and eager this 

 year, and free from any gritty substance at all, unless very 

 near the core. The Core is of a moderate size, rather longish 

 shaped than round, bulging out in the middle, lying much 

 about the middle of the fruit, and not deep in it ; its cells of 

 a moderate size, straight, white, and poorly stocked with 

 kernels. This Bergamot d'Autome is somewhat like a fair 

 Petit Oin, only the pulp seems to be of a whiter complexion, 

 its juice more liquid and thinner in its consistency, it is 

 sharper tasted, and not so sweet and luscious. 



Orange Vert, or Orange Bergamot,^. 11. A wind- 

 fall 24 th August, 1714, ( a very hot dry summer), from a dwarf 

 upon a Pear Stock, being a very large specimen. A very 

 great bearer, and comes in soon upon a Quince Stock, not 

 only in form of a dwarf, but in an Espalier. Some plant 

 them against walls, but they are ill advised, for it will bear 

 well, and large and handsome fruit, without such helps, nay 

 in a standard. The walls may be better employed by encou- 

 raging fruits of a more ticklish nature, and choicer in kind. 



