MARCH. 
open, placed almost level with the surface, and with long segments, which 
sometimes are entirely wanting. Stalk an inch long, slender, and woody, 
inserted somewhat obliquely in a small cavity. Flesh white, fine-grained, 
tender, half buttery, and melting, very juicy, sugary, and with the flavour of 
the old Autumn Bergamot. 
An excellent dessert Pear, ripe in the middle of October. This is one of 
Van Mons’ posthumous seedlings, which produced fruit for the first time in 
1847, and was named by M. Bivort in honour of M. Heimbourg, President of 
the Philharmonic Societv of Brussels. 
BERGAMOTTE DE HOLLANDE.— Merlet. 
Identification.— -Merlet Abrege, 120. Duh. Arb. Fruit, ii. 170. Hort. Soc. Cat. 
ed. 3. n. 44. Down. Fr. Amer. 430. 
Synonymes. —Bergamotte d’Alen^on, Acc. Duhamel. Bergamotte de Fougere, 
Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1. n. 68. Beurre d’AlenQon, Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. Amosefle, 
Decaisne Jard. Fruit, du Mus. liv. 38. Musquine de Bretagne, Acc. Decaisne. Holland 
Bergamot, Mill. Diet. n. 71; Lindl. Guide, 389. Lord Cheney’s, Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat. 
Sara, Acc. Bavay. Cat. 1852. Hollandische Bergamotte, Christ. Handworterb. 155. 
Figure. —Dub. Arb. Fruit, ii. pi. xxv. Jard. Fruit, ed. 2. pi. 89. Decaisne Jard. 
Fruit, du Mus. liv. 38. 
Fruit large, 3 inches wide and 2f high, roundish, and flattened. Skin 
green at first, but changing as it ripens to clear yellow, and marked with 
several brown russet spots. Eye small, set in a wide and deep basin. Stalk 
1| inch long, slender, curved, and inserted in a small and furrowed cavity. 
Flesh white, rather gritty, and coarse-grained, crisp, juicy, and pleasantly- 
flavoured. 
A dessert Pear of second-rate quality, in use from March till June, but may 
be used before that period for cooking. 
The tree is vigorous either on the pear or quince, but to bring the fruit to 
perfection it requires a wall, which, however, it does not merit. 
BERGAMOTTE LESELBE .—Liron d’Air. 
Identification. —Liron d’Air. Poir prec. 20. 
Fruit below medium size, 24- inches broad and the same in height, Berga¬ 
mot-shaped. Skin dark green at first, but changing as it ripens to golden 
yellow, speckled with cinnamon-coloured russet, and strewed with darker brown 
dots, particularly towards the eye, and tinged with a crimson blush on the side 
next the sun. Eye open, clove-like, with short segments, set in a w r ide and 
irregular basin. Stalk half an inch long, stout, inserted on the extremity of 
the fruit without depression, and with several fleshj 7 folds at its base. Flesh 
white, coarse-grained, half melting, very juicy, and nicely perfumed. 
A second-rate Pear, hardly worth cultivating, ripe in the first or second 
w’eek in October. 
The tree was raised by M. Leselbe, in a vineyard on the estate of Loche- 
furet, near Tours, and first produced fruit in 1843. 
BERGAMOTTE MICO. 
Fruit about medium size, 2f- inches broad and the same in height, roundish, 
and not unlike a small Easter Beurre. Skin greenish yellow, covered with 
freckles and dots of cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye closed, with rather long 
awl-shaped segments, like those of Easter Beurre, and set in a shallow depres¬ 
sion. Stalk half an inch long, rather stout, and set in a narrow round cavity. 
Flesh coarse-grained, gritty, and without much flavour. 
An inferior Pear, ripe in the end of November, when it becomes meally. 
