Bergamotte d’Été is of ancient and unknown origin. Le Lectier wrote of it in 1628 as cultivated under the name of Milan de la Beuverière. Fruit medium, globular-turbinate or globular, bossed, narrowed towards the top which is usually mammillate, pale green slightly yellowish on the shaded side and tinted with tender rose color on the cheek exposed to the sun, and dotted all over with fawn; flesh whitish, semi-fine, melting, rarely very gritty; juice abundant, rather tart, saccharine, with a very savory flavor; first; Aug. and Sept.
Bergamotte d’été de Lubeck. 1. Guide Prat. 83, 237. 1876. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 5:97, fig. 337. 1880.
This variety is very much grown in the environs of Lubeck, Ger. Fruit medium, nearly round, color at first of a water-green, nearly covered with a russet of gray-brown; when ripening the russet brightens and some dots of whitish-gray become visible; flesh yellowish-white, fine, compact, buttery, rather gritty near the core, sugary and juicy; first; Aug. and Sept.
Bergamotte Fertile. 1. Guide Prat. 83, 237. 1876.
A Van Mons seedling; Belgium, 1828. Fruit medium, globular-turbinate, symmetrical, uniform light lemon-yellow all over, russeted; skin scentless; flesh granular, melting, sweet, aromatic; second for dessert, first for kitchen and market; late Sept.
Bergamotte la Gantoise 1. Guide Prat. 85. 1895.
Raised from seed of the Bergamotte Espéren, which it surpasses in size and quality, by Dervaes Bros., Wetteren, Bel. Fruit large, generally round; color green sprinkled with brown dots, passing into yellow on ripening; flesh white, very melting, juicy, slightly perfumed; first; Feb. and Mar.
Bergamotte Heimbourg. 1. Mag. Hort. 21:189. 1855. 2. Mas Le Verger 3:Pt. 2, 159, fig. 176. 1866-73.
A seedling of Van Mons. Reported for the first time in 1847. Fruit medium, globular-conic; skin rough to the touch, olive-yellow, dotted, veined and stained with russet and slightly washed with pale red on the cheek exposed to the sun; flesh whitish, fine, melting, rather gritty at center; juice sufficient, acidulous, sugary, delicately perfumed; first; Oct.