PLATE LI 11. 
BERGAMOT PEARS. 
The family of Bergamot Pears has been recognised from a remote antiquity. The name, 
says Manger, is not derived from Bergamo in Italy, as many have supposed, but from the Turkish 
• words beg , or bey, a prince, and Armoud, a pear. He also shows that this Prince among Pears was 
formerly written Begarmoud , and not Bergamotte , by referring to Groen’s “ Niederlandisken and 
since its name is Turkish, he infers that the first variety came from Turkey. The varieties are 
now very numerous. 
i. RIVERS’ SEEDLING BERGAMOT. 
One of the many Seedlings raised by Mr. Rivers at Sawbridgeworth, (c. i860). 
Description .—Fruit : small, two inches and a quarter broad and two inches high ; round, but 
rising unequally at the insertion of the stalk. Skin : green, changing to yellowish green as it 
becomes mature, with small patches of brown russet particularly around the stalk. Eye : small, and 
but very slightly depressed. Stalk : half to three quarters of an inch long, stout and irregular in shape 
with level insertion, or in a very slight and narrow cavity. Flesh : yellowish, very juicy, melting, 
sweet, and with a pleasant perfumed flavour. 
A very pleasant pear in season in September and October. 
The tree grows freely, and when full grown bears abundantly. 
