PEARS. 605 



LODGE. Fruit, about medium size ; obtuse pyriform. Skin, 

 smooth and shining, yellowish green, mottled with darker green ; 

 marked with a few flesh-coloured dots on the side next the sun, and 

 strewed all over with faint tracings of delicate russet. Eye, small, with 

 short dry segments, closed, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, upwards of 

 an inch long, slender, inserted without depression. Flesh, white, 

 tender, melting, and juicy, sprightly, but with no particular aroma or 

 flavour. 



An American pear ; ripe in October. It is somewhat like Louise 

 Bonne of Jersey, but very inferior to that variety. 



LONGLAND. Fruit, quite small ; turbinate, even, regular, and 

 rather handsomely shaped. Skin, very thickly covered with large 

 russet freckles of a pale ashen colour, the side next the sun having a 

 pale red cheek, and on the shaded side it is greenish yellow. Eye, 

 large and open, clove-like, with a ring of stamens set round, placed 

 even with the surface. Stalk, an inch long, straight and stout, very 

 slightly depressed in a narrow cavity. Flesh, yellow, very astringent. 



A very old Herefordshire perry pear. 



LONGUEVILLE. Fruit, large, three inches long, and two and a 

 half wide ; obovate, regular in its outline, and handsome. Skin, 

 greenish yellow, with a tinge of pale red next the sun, and entirely 

 covered with numerous grey russet specks, which are so thick as some- 

 times to appear like network. Eye, open, with stiff, dry, erect seg- 

 ments, surrounded with rough russet, and set even with the surface. 

 Stalk, about an inch long, stout, fleshy at the base, inserted in a round 

 narrow cavity, lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, crisp and tender, 

 very juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured. 



An excellent pear, much grown in the south of Scotland, where it 

 succeeds well. 



In the earlier editions of this work I adopted this as a synonyme of Hampden's 

 Bergamot, on the authority of the Horticultural Society's Catalogue ; but I 

 find the Longueville, which is grown in the Scotch orchards, is quite different. 

 Dr. Neill says, " Though the name is now unknown in France, it is conjectured 

 that the tree was brought over from that country by The Douglas when Lord of 

 Longueville in the 15th century." Trees of it still exist in the old orchards about 

 Jedburgh, and on Tweedside. 



LONDON SUGAR. Fruit, below medium size ; turbinate. Skin, 

 pale green, becoming yellow when ripe, with a brownish tinge when 

 fully exposed to the sun. Eye, small, half open, prominent, and sur- 

 rounded with puckered plaits. Stalk, an inch long, slender, obliquely 

 inserted. Flesh, tender, melting, very juicy, sugary, and musky. 



A small, very early pear ; ripe in the end of July and beginning of 

 August. 



This is a variety described by Lindley as being so much cultivated in Norfolk 

 for the Norwich market. He says it much resembles the Madeline or Citron des 

 Carmes, but the branches are pendulous, and in the Madeleine they are ascending. 



