LTHOUGH the Bergamot Seckle is a Pear 
•Vj^ of modern origin. 
it can boast a descent from 
e«; 
the most ancient of the nobility amongst Pears 
in Great Britain. It has been raised from the Seckle and 
Gansells Bergamot. The Seckle, like the country whence 
it has emanated, is comparatively young ; but Ganscdl's Ber- 
gamot has for its parent our celebrated autumn Bergamot, 
vulgarly called the Burgundy, or Burgamy. This latter Pear 
is of very high antiquity, having even been, if we may believe 
Switzer, introduced into England by Julius Caesar. Such is 
the genealogy of our present subject ; its immediate produc- 
tion, however, we owe to John 'Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, 
whose untiring zeal, in horticultural pursuits, rve have pre- 
viously had occasion to mention. His attention to the im- 
