We quote the following from the Gardeners Magazine, accounting for the names various classes of pears have received :

"Bergamot is a collective name for a distinct class of pears. A Bergamot pear takes its name from Bergamo, a town in Lombardy, where certain kinds of small pears were grown, and became famous for their sweetness.

"A Besi pear is a foundling, a wilding, a thing without a history. Thus, Besi d' Hery was discovered in the forest of Hery, in Brittany. Besi de Quessoy was found in the forest of Quessoy in Brittany.

"A Beurre" pear is a buttery pear; therefore has, or should have melting flesh.

" Fondant is the equivalent of Beurrd, and should indicate a melting pear.

"Bon or Bonne might pass for good, but it may mean large, unusual, extra fine in any way whatever.

"A Catillac is a reminder of an engine of punishment, ' parce que sa chair s' attache a la gorge de celui qui la mange crue.'

"Colmar is the capital of the department of the Haut-Rhin, France, sweetly situated at the foot of the Vosges mountains. It is a great place for manufactures, and also for pears, the variety known as 'Colmar' having been grown there for hundreds of years, and it probably is one of the thirty or forty sorts the Romans were choice about.

"Delice, m., and Delices f., imply delightful, and it happens that all the pears having this prefix are good.

" Doyenne refers to the deanery, and seems to imply that the pear having such a prefix originated in the cure's garden. But Leroy knocks the dean on the head by saying the name was given to the pear known as Doyenne to indicate its excellence, 'd'une chose de qualite superieure c'est la doyenne".

" Muscat as applied to a pear suggests that it has a musky flavor.

"Passe apart from a suffix means almost anything, but in this particular connection it indicates high quality, thus passe-fin, excellent fine cloth, as in Cotgrave.

"A Rousselet is a red pear. A Rousseau is a red-haired man. The verb roussir means to redden.

"Crasanne is a troublesome word as a prefix to a pear; it suggests the choke pear, which was anciently so called.

"Calebasse means like a calabash, or a gourd, or a bottle.

"Wardens are long-keeping cooking pears".