Bergamotte de Parthenay. 1. Pom. France. 4:No. 146, Pl. 146. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:5, fig. 483. 1881.
A chance seedling found in a wood on the outskirts of Parthenay, a town in the Department of Deuz-Sèvres, Fr. Fruit large, globular-turbinate, obtuse, often irregular in outline, greatest circumference around the middle, dull green, sprinkled with large, fawn dots, regular and evenly spaced, changing to greenish-yellow and more golden on the side next the sun; flesh white, semi-fine, semi-melting; juice fairly abundant, saccharine and without perfume, often astringent; first for cooking.
Bergamotte Picquot. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 671. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:131, fig. 162. 1878.
A French pear of uncertain origin. Fruit medium, globular-conic, very clear green changing to yellow, sprinkled with numerous indistinct dots of grayish-brown; flesh white, fine, buttery, melting, juicy, sugary; good, first if its season were more prolonged; Oct.
Bergamotte Ploskui. 1. Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 61. 1880.
A variety grown on the Northern plains of the steppes of Russia where the summer is fully as dry and hot as that of Iowa and the winter far more severe. On trial at the College Farm, Ames, Iowa, in 1880. It seems to unite well with the apple when root- or top-grafted.
Bergamotte Poiteau. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:21, fig. 107. 1878.
Poiteau (des Français) 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:538, fig. 1869.
This variety came from a seed bed made by M. Poiteau, Fr., and was first reported in 1851. Fruit medium, globular-obtuse, irregular in outline, golden yellow, sown with very numerous and extremely fine gray and brown dots, generally washed with dull red on the side next the sun; flesh very white, fine, melting, watery; juice very saccharine, slightly acid and musky, agreeable; first; Oct.