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No 6    Early Bergamotte

[sketch of pear]
2 inches long
1¾ in diameter

A small pear of remarkable dark green skin which
usually assumes a yellowish cast as it becomes ripe.
The stalk is pretty long, the flesh remarkably rich,
and for an early pear juicy, of a yellow cast.  The
fruit is rather of a mean appearance, but it is certainly
of a very superior quality. The tree seldom
grows vigorously, is a great bearer, small leaves,
which frequently fall and leave the limbs very
naked, particularly in dry weather. This property
appears to be the cause of the tree being less
subject to the fire blight than any other fine
pear in our Country.  It is in perfection from
the middle to the last of July.  The shape is
short and somewhat produced towards the stalk.
The skin is covered with Russet spots mixed with the green.

An early Bergamot of the largest size
[sketch of pear]

[sketch of pear]
[margin insert begins][sketch of index finger pointing right]
Grafted 18 [Cions] on a large
Pear tree on first + [walk] in Strawberry
bed April 2. 1828. Early Bergamots[margin insert ends]
        