THE PEARS OF NE YORK 44! 



Lacroix. i. Card. Chron. 3d Ser. 1:442. 1887. 



Published in Revue Horticole in 1887. Fruit medium, regular pyriform, yellow blushed 

 and spotted with red on the exposed side; flesh white, flavor said to be like that of Easter 

 Beurre"; Dec. and Jan. 

 Lady Clapp. x. III. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 178. 1896. 2. Ellwanger & Barry Cat. 17. 1900. 



Fruit large, yellow; flesh juicy, melting, vinous; first; Sept., following Bartlett. 

 Lafayette, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 796. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:13, fig. 199. 

 1879. 



Originated in Connecticut. Fruit small, globular-pyriform, pale yellow, stained with 

 russet, passing at maturity to lemon-yellow and the russet becoming golden, numerous 

 dots of gray-brown ; flesh yellowish, rather fine, melting, slightly gritty at the core, buttery, 

 very juicy, sweet but lacking flavor; medium; Oct. 

 Laherard. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:324, fig. 1869. 



Origin uncertain, but attributed to Van Mons. Fruit above medium, ovate, mam- 

 millate at summit, sometimes rather elongated but generally more swelled at the middle, 

 thin-skinned, yellow-ochre or greenish-yellow, vermilioned on the face exposed to the sun, 

 dotted with fine specks and stains of gray especially around the calyx; flesh white, fine, 

 melting, juicy, rather granular around the core; juice abundant, very sugary, acid, and 

 having an exquisite savor; first; Oct. 

 Lammas, i. Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 418. 1831. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 601. 1884. 



Originated possibly in the Highlands of Scotland, being recommended for that district 

 by Lindley. Grown also in England. Fruit below medium, pyramidal, regular pale yellow, 

 streaked with red next the sun ; flesh melting, tender, juicy, agreeable ; good ; Aug. 

 Lammerbirne. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:54. 1856. 



German. Franken, Bavaria, 1809. Fruit below medium, ovate-conic, whitish-green; 

 flesh hard, juicy, somewhat aromatic, and sweet and acid ; third for table, first for cooking 

 and market; July. 

 Lancaster, i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 119. 1875. 



A seedling grown by T. S. Lancaster, Gloucester, Mass., and exhibited in 1875. Fruit 

 medium, oblong-pyriform, yellow, with brown-russet; flesh coarse, juicy, buttery; hardly 

 good; late autumn. 

 Landsberger Malvasier. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:126. 1856. 



Raised by Burchardt at Landsberg, Ger., 1851. Fruit medium, often large, conic, 

 even sides, dark yellow, speckled with russet dots; flesh rather white, buttery, melting; 

 very valuable, first for dessert and market; Nov. and Dec. 



Langbirne. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:2. 1856. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 245. 

 1889. 



D'Ane. 3. Leroy Diet. Pom. 1:129, n g- 1867. 



Switzerland and Germany, 1804; particularly popular in the former country where it 

 is very generally cultivated, and often known as the Strangle. Fruit medium or above, 

 very long, like Calebasse in form, greenish-yellow turning to lemon-yellow, somewhat 

 blushed, and speckled with dots of greenish-gray; first for culinary use; end of Aug. 



