THE AUTUMN BERGAMOT PEAR.
Autumn, or English Bergamot. Switzer’s Fruit Gardener,
p . 117. H i t t ’s Treatise, p . 333. Miller’s Dictionary.
Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p . 43.
York Bergamot. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 62.
Common Bergamot. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 52.
For the following excellent observations we have
again to thank Mr. Thompson.
The Pear generally cultivated in this country
under the name of Autumn Bergamot is not the
Bergamotte d’Automne of the French, although
Miller and other writers have quoted it as a synonym.
The Bergamotte d’Automne has not yet
fruited in the Garden of the Society. There are in
it, however, several trees from various French authorities,
which perfectly agree with each other in their
wood and foliage, and so far also with the description
of Duhamel, but are very different in these
respects from the sort here treated of. It also deserves
to be noticed, that both the old and young
wood of all these trees of the Bergamotte d’Automne
canker very much in this soil and climate ; whereas
in the Autumn Bergamot there is not the least
appearance of decay. It is probable that the French
have not got this sort, as it has not been yet discovered
under any name among their collections
received into the Garden of the Horticultural Society.
Nothing, however, is known of its real origin.
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