PLATE LXII. 
2. SUMMER FRANC REAL. 
[Syn : Franc Real F Iite; Beurre d'Ete ; Bergamotte clEte ; Bergamotte de la Benvrier ; 
Fin oi'd' Ete ; Gros Micet d'Fte; Coule Soif; Great Mouthwater; Grosse Mouille Bonche; Hdtiveau 
Blanc ; Milan Blanc ; Milan de la Beuvriere; Roy ale; Fondante , or Frame Caneel Pear of Knoop.] 
The history of this pear is lost. It was at one time much grown in this country, but is now 
rarely met with. Miller, Forsyth, and Lindley, are all wrong in making the Summer Bergamot of 
English gardens synonymous with this. The name “ Franc Reald Mayer thinks, means 
Royal Pear ; but Diel derives the name from the Spanish gold coin “ real,” which the pear resembles 
somewhat in colour. 
Description. —Fruit : above medium size, two inches and a half wide, and about the same in 
height, and turbinate. Skin : smooth, pale, yellowish green, strewed with numerous brown and 
green dots, and tinged with brownish red next the sun. Eye: small and open, set in a small 
undulating basin. Stalk : short and thick, inserted in a small cavity. Flesh : yellowish white, 
fine grained, buttery and melting, rich and sugary. 
An excellent early pear, ripe in September. It is very useful in filling up the vacancy of 
supply in the interval between the ripening of the Jargonelle , and that of the other early autumn 
varieties. 
The tree is hardy, free growing, and healthy. It bears well, and succeeds best as a standard 
on the pear stock. A single tree will afford a sufficient supply in most cases, during the very short 
time the fruit remains in perfection. 
