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melting, sprightly, pleasing; quality good; stone nearly free, large for the size of the fruit, 

 oval, flattened at the base; ripens the last of August. 

 Lone Ark. i. .V. Mex. Sta. Bid. 30:243. 1899. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Lone Tree. 1. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 420. 1898. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909. 



Lone Tree is one of many seedlings that thrive about Lone Tree, Iowa. In 1909 

 it was put on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society. Fruit of mediimi size, 

 yellow, without any blush; quality good; pit very small, free; ripens about September 

 10th. 

 Long Leaved, i. Mas Pom. Gen. 12:186. 1883. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Longhurst. i. Green Cat. 18. 1893. 2. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:218. 1899. 3. Can. Hort. 

 29:105. [906. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909. 



Longhurst originated on the Niagara Peninsula, Canada. It was added to the fruit- 

 list of the American Pomological Society in 1909. Trees very hardy, productive; glands 

 globose; flowers large; fruit medium in size, oval, halves unequal, very pubescent, unattrac- 

 tive; suture indistinct; apex prominent; color yellow, with a red blush; flesh red at the 

 pit, fibrous, vinous, sprightly; pit free, oval, pointed; ripens the last of September. 

 Longworthy. i. Tex. Sta. Bui. 39:813. 1896. 



Longworthy Late Rareripe. 2. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 415. 1858. 



Tree vigorous but a shy bearer; glands reniform; fruit small, roimd, pale white, with 

 a red cheek; flavor pleasant subacid; clingstone; ripens the last of July in Texas. 

 Lonoke, i. Tex. Sta. Bui. 8:34. 1889. 2. Munson Cat. 6. 1893. 



Flowers large; fruit large, yellow; clingstone; ripens late; stire bearer. 

 Lord Fauconberg Mignonne. i, Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 261, 262. 1831. 



An old English variety known as early as 1769. Leaves doubly serrate, without 

 glands; flowers small; fruit above medium in size, ovate, deeply sutured, pale yellow, 

 with wide splashes of deep, dull red; flesh yellowish-white, red at the stone, juicy; stone 

 free, rather flat; ripens the middle of September. 



Lord Palmerston. i. Hogg Fruit Man. 225. 1866. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 621. 

 1869. 3. Lauche Erganznngsband 715 fig., 716. 1883. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 452. 

 1884. 



Palmerston. 5. Mich. Sta. Bid. 169:222. 1899. 



This variety was raised by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, from a pit 

 of Princess of Wales. Fruit large, rotmdish, inclined to oval, with a distinct suture ; color 

 yellowish-white, with a red blush; flesh creamy-white, red at the pit which is somewhat 

 adherent, juicy, firm, mild; qiiality good; season the last of September. 

 Lorentz. i. Reid Cat. 33 fig. 1894. 2. Mich. Sta. Bui. 169:204, 219. 1899. 3. Ont. 

 Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 7:54. 1900. 4. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:350. 1903. 

 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909. 



Lorentz is supposed to have come from a seedling tree found about 1889 in the 

 orchard of Fred Lorentz, Marshall County, West Virginia. It was introduced about 

 1894 by E. W. Reid, Bridgeport, Ohio. Fruit of medium size, roundish, compressed. 



