THE GANSEE S BERGAMOT PEAR.
Gansel’s Bergamot. Forsyth. Hooker’s Pomona Lond.
no. 17. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 53.
? Brocas Bergamot. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 51.
Among our native English autumnal Pears, this,
perhaps, holds the highest rank, whether we consider
its beauty, its excellence, or its prolific nature.
I t was raised by a Lieut.-General Gansel, from seed
of the Autumn Bergamot, a t Donneland Hall, near
Colchester, about the middle of the last century.
I t does not bear well as a standard, but yields
a tolerably certain crop on an east or south-east
wall, in which situation it ripens well. In the
middle of November it comes into eating, and continues
in perfection about a month.
Sometimes it attains a very large size, having
occasionally been seen almost a foot in circumference.
The Wood is weak and flexuose, like th a t of
the Brown Beurré, but is covered with a kind of
mealiness, as are also the leaves, by which it is
particularly distnguished from all the Beurrés and
Chaumontelles.
Leaves shining, flat, rather mealy.
F ruit ovate, very much flattened at the crown,
usually 7^ or 8 inches round, of a very regular