Bergamotte Mico. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 502. 1884.
Fruit above medium, globular, rather like a small Easter Beurré, greenish-yellow, covered with freckles and dots of cinnamon-colored russet; flesh coarse-grained, gritty, wanting in flavor; inferior; late Nov.
Bergamotte de Millepieds. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:249, fig. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:107, fig. 150. 1878.
Raised by M. Goubault, near Angers, Fr. First reported in 1852. Fruit medium, globular-ovate or sometimes globular-pyriform, olive-green, sprinkled with brownish dots and streaked with fawn around the calyx and stem, changing to pale yellow, with a glow on the side next the sun; flesh white, tender, buttery, melting, richly flavored; first; Sept. in Fr.; Nov. in America.
Bergamotte Nicolle. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:149, fig. 555. 1881.
Raised from seeds of Flemish Beauty in 1849 by M. Nicolle, a member of the Society of Horticulture of Rouen. Fruit medium, globular, attaining its greatest circumference around the middle, depressed at each pole, bright green sprinkled with distinct red dots, some russet patches; flesh white, slightly yellowish, fine, very melting; juice abundant, saccharine, perfumed; first; Oct.
Bergamotte Œuf de Cygne. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:55, fig. 508. 1881.
Fruit medium or rather large, globular, more or less depressed at both base and summit, regular in outline, largest circumference around the middle, bright green, sprinkled with gray or greenish-gray dots; flesh white, tinted and veined with yellow, fine, melting, rather gritty about the core, with abundant, sweet juice, delicately perfumed; first; Oct. and Nov.
Bergamotte d’Oisan. 1. Horticulturist 13:189. 1857.
Published in England in 1857 in the London Illustrated News, and described as a large pear weighing between two and three pounds, found in Algeria, and exhibited in London.