GANSEL'S BERGAMOT PEAR.

This truly excellent Pear was obtained from a seed of the Autumn Bergamot, by the late Lieutenant-General GANSEL, at his seat, Donneland Hall, near Colchester, about fifty years ago*.

The specimen from which the drawing was taken, ripened on a standard tree in 1808. When trained to a wall, with a favourable exposure, it commonly attains a much larger size; but it is not then so highly flavoured, nor will it keep so long. If this fruit be gathered from a standard tree about the 10th of October, and placed in an airy room, it will be in perfection towards the middle of November, and will continue about a month. This Pear never begins to decay internally, but gives fair warning when it cannot be longer preserved : its pulp is not so soft and melting as that of the Brown Beurré, but it contains much more saccharine matter. It is so highly esteemed by the public, that fine samples sell currently in Covent Garden Market at 2s. 6d. each. The tree grows with great vigour, the wood being hard and compact, and the bark perfectly smooth and healthy: it is, however, generally found to be a shy bearer, except in very favourable situations and seasons, its blossoms being very impatient of cold: but as we have few, if any, varieties of autumnal Pears of equal merit which succeed better as standards, it is justly entitled to a place in every fruit garden*..