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sprinkled with bright brown spots, and largely stained with fawn about calyx and stem 

 and often also on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, and dense, melt- 

 ing, seldom gritty and rarely has seeds; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous, savory but 

 often with an excessive taste of musk, spoiling its delicacy; first; end of Sept. 

 Le Congo, i. Guide Prat. 95. 1895. 



Distributed by M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel., and in the trial orchards of Messrs. 

 Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1895. Tree vigorous and fairly prolific. Fruit medium; 

 flesh semi-fine, very saccharine and highly scented; Nov. and Dec. 

 Le Lecher, i. Card. Chron. 3rd Ser. 4:334. 1888. 



This seedling, raised by A. Lesuer, Ypres, Bel., resulted from Bartlett fertilized with 

 Fortune"e. Fruit large, pyriform, yellow, spotted with drab spots; flesh white, juicy, sugary, 

 brisk and perfumed, free from grit; Jan. to Mar. 

 Leclerc-Thouin. i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:330, fig. 1869. 



Raised by M. Andr6 Leroy at Angers, Fr., and fruited first in 1867. Fruit above 

 medium, conic, very obtuse and generally more curved on one side than on the other; skin 

 uneven, clear yellow, clouded with green and partially covered with russet on which appear 

 small specks of gray; flesh whitish, semi-fine, watery, very melting, granular around the 

 core; juice sugary, vinous and slightly acid, perfumed flavor; first; Sept. 

 Lederbirne. i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 89. 1845. 2. Loschnig Mostbirnen 202, fig. 



An Austrian perry pear. Fruit medium, truncated-pyriform, somewhat bossed and 

 irregular in outline, leaf-green turning greenish-yellow, gray russet dots, blushed on the 

 sunny side; flesh yellow- white, coarse-grained, very juicy, subacid; Oct. to Dec. 

 Lee. i. Elliott Fr. Book 375. 1854. 



Originated at Salem, Mass. Fruit small to medium, globular-oval, greenish-russet, 

 brown in the sun; flesh white, coarse, juicy, good; Sept. 

 Lee Seckel. i. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 565. 1885. 



Fruit medium to large, obovate, rich russet; flesh buttery, rich, perfumed; very goodr 

 Sept. 

 Leger. i. Guide Prat. 95. 1895. 



Obtained from a seed bed of Winter Nelis by M. Sannier. Tree of moderate vigor, 

 fertile and suitable for all forms of culture. Fruit medium, globular-ovate; flesh fine,. 

 acidulous; Oct. 

 Lehoferbirne. i. Loschnig Mostbirnen 126, fig. 1913. 



A perry pear widely distributed in Upper and Lower Austria under various names. 

 Fruit medium to large, globular-pyriform, leaf-green turning yellow at maturity, dotted 

 and marked with russet, well-exposed fruit blushed; flesh yellow-white, coarse-grained, very- 

 juicy, astringent, saccharine, acidulous: mid-Oct. and keeps in storage till end of Nov. 

 Leipziger Rettigbirn. i. Lauche Deut. Pom. II:No. 92, PI. 92. 1883. 



Radis de Leipsick. 2. Mas Le Verger 2:125, fig- 61. 1866-73. 



Leipsic Radish. 3. Can. Exp. Farms. Rpt. 379. 1902. 



Originated at Duben near Leipsic, Saxony. It was published by Diel in 1807. Fruit 

 small, nearly spherical or spherical-ovate, a little more constricted at the stem end then 



