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THE EARLY BERGAMOT PEAR.
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Among a collection of Pear-trees sent in 1820
by the late M. Thouin to the Horticultural Society,
was a sort called De Huchet, which, upon fruiting
in the Chiswick Garden, proved to be the kind now
figured. But Mr. Thompson has justly remarked,
that this cannot possibly be the Poire de Huchet,
although no description of that kind is upon record;
and for the following reasons: — In the first place,
the name, which signifies a post-boy’s horn, is
entirely at variance with the form of this; and
secondly, it is almost certain that the De Huchet is
a Perry Pear, and not a table variety; for it is so considered
by M. Thouin, in the list which accompanied
the collection sent to the Horticultural Society in
1820, and it is mentioned by Mayer as forming a
part of the treatise of the Marquis de Chambray,
of which, it appears from the list of gardening books
quoted in the Pomona Franconica, the title is “ L’Art
de cultiver les Pommiers et les Poiriers, et de faire
du Cidre selon I’usage de Normandie, par le M. de
Chambray. Paris, 1765.”
That this is not the Pear under the name of
which it was sent, appears therefore to be certain.
It is equally clear that it is unlike any kind cultivated
in this country. About the period when it
ripens we have none that are half as good. It is a
most excellent variety of its season, and well worth
growing.
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