PLATE LIII. 
3. GANSEL’S BERGAMOT. 
[Syn : Bonne Rouge ; Brocas Bergamot; Diamant ; Gurles Beurre ; Ives Bergamot; StauntonI\ 
It is generally believed that this variety was raised from a seed of the Autumn Bergamot , by 
Lieut. General Gansel, at his seat Donneland Park, near Colchester, in 1768 ; and this account rests 
upon a communication to that effect from David Jebb, Esq., of Worcester, a nephew of General 
Gansel, to Mr. Williams of Pitmaston. Mr. Lindley however says—the Bonne Rouge of the French 
is evidently the same sort, and the English name must have been given after it had been received 
from that country.” In the manuscript Catalogue of the Brompton Park Nursery it appears 
that both the Bonne Rouge and Brocas Bergamot , were cultivated there in 1753, and it had probably 
been grown there at a much earlier period under both these names, so that it is exceedingly 
doubtful whether General Gansel had anything to do with its origin, and it is most probable that 
he had not. A good figure of it is given by Lindley, PI. 35. 
Description .—Fruit: full medium size three inches wide, and two and a half to three inches 
long ; roundish, inclining to obovate, and flattened at the apex. Skin : greenish yellow on the 
shaded side, and reddish brown next the sun ; the whole thickly strewed with russety dots and 
specks. Eye : small and open, with broad ovate reflexed segment, set in a shallow basin. Stalk : 
short and fleshy, half an inch long, inserted in a round very shallow cavity, frequently between two 
