THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. 483 



Le Due. Americana, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 134. 1887. 2. Waugh Plum Cult. 156. 

 1901. 3. Ohio Sta. Bui. 162:256, 257. 1905. La Due i. 



Le Due was found growing wild at Hasting, Minnesota; introduced by W. G. 

 Le Due. Fruit of medium size, roundish; suture faint; cavity small; bright red; 

 bloom thin; flesh yellow, sweet, pleasant; quality fair; stone large, semi-clinging; 

 mid-season. 

 Legal Tender. Americana, i. la. Sta. Bui. 46:277. 1900. 



Originated under cultivation with H. A. Tern,', Crescent, Iowa in 1896; first 

 fruited in 1899; parentage unknown. Tree vigorous, productive; fruit large, round, 

 golden-yellow blotched with dark red; skin thin; fine quality; semi-clinging; mid- 

 season. 

 Leib Sour. Simonii X Triflora. i. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 14:272. 1901. 



One of Burbank's hj^brids; of the type of Wickson. Fruit large, round or slightly 

 oblate; stem strong; cavity wide; suture shallow; apex slightly depressed; light red 

 with thin bloom; dots many, prominent; flesh yellow, firm, meaty; flavor peculiar, 

 aromatic, subacid; good to very good; stone medium, oval, flattened, clinging. 

 Leonard. Americana, i. Montreal Hart. Soe. Rpt. 90. 1885. 2. Colo. Sta. Bid. 50: 

 40. 1898. 3. Waugh Plum Cult. 156. 1901. 



Originated with Charles Gibb, Montreal, Canada, in 1873 from a wild plum root 

 obtained from Wisconsin. Fruit medium, round; cavity shallow; stem slender; dull 

 dark red, mottled; dots small; flesh yellow, not firm, acid; quality fair; stone small, 

 round-oval, smooth, semi-clinging; mid-season. 

 Leopard. Triflora X ? 1. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 14:272. 1901. 



From Theodore Williams, of Nebraska, from a " Botan pit pollinated with Red 

 Glass." Fruit large, round-oval; stem medium long, set in a shallow cavity; skin 

 thick; light rich red; flesh yellow, firm; flavor Miner-like, rich and sweet; good to 

 very good. 

 Lepine. Insititia. i. Koch Deut. Obst. 570. 1876. 2. Lange Allgem. Garten. 2:420. 1879. 



A variety of the Damson type raised by Lepine in Belgium; probably not known 

 in this country; very similar to Norbet and by some said to be the same. Tree large, 

 productive; fruit of medium size, round, somewhat compressed; suture shallow; skin 

 removable, not sourish; dark blue; flesh greenish-yellow, firm, sweet, wine-like; stone 

 free; late. 



Leptune. Hortulana. i. Cornell Sta. Bid. 38:56, 86. 1892. 2. Bailey Ev. Nat. Fr. 

 203, 206, 208. 1898. 3. Vt. Sta. An. Rpt. 11:284. 1898- 



Introduced by J. D. Morrow & Sons of Arkansas. Leaves elliptic-ovate to elliptic- 

 obovate, very long-pointed and coarsely serrate; stalks either glandless or glandular; 

 fruit of medium size, round; skin thick, dark red; dots yellow; flesh yellow, meaty; 

 stone medium, nearly smooth, short-pointed, clinging. 

 Letta. Species? i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 133. 1891. 



Found in Buchanan County, Iowa; introduced by J. Wragg & Son of Waukee. 

 Iowa. Fruit as large as Hawkeye. 

 Lewis. Domestica. i. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 46. 1895. 



