606 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



LONG STALKED BLANQUET (Blanquet a Long Queue}. Fruit, 

 small, produced in clusters ; pyriform. Skin, thin, smooth, at first 

 clear yellowish green, changing as it ripens to bright pale yellow, with 

 sometimes a very faint tinge of pale red next the sun, strewed with a 

 few minute dots. Eye, open, set even with the surface. Stalk, an 

 inch and a half long, inserted without depression, and frequently with 

 a fleshy swelling at the base. Flesh, white, tender, slightly gritty, juicy, 

 sweet, and with a slight musky flavour. 



A dessert pear ; ripe in July, but soon decays. The tree is vigorous 

 and an abundant bearer, succeeds well as a standard. 



Lord Cheyne's. See Bergamotte de Hollande. 

 Louis Bosc. See Besi de Montigny. 

 Louis Dupont. See Urbaniste. 



LOUIS GREGOIRE. Fruit, about medium size ; turbinate, un- 

 dulating and uneven on the surface. Skin, a uniform lemon-colour, 

 thickly dotted with large russet dots, and here and there a patch of 

 russet. Eye, small and closed, set in a rather deep basin. Stalk, 

 long, slender, and woody, inserted without depression. Flesh, yellow- 

 ish, rather coarse-grained, slightly gritty, very juicy, and were it not 

 for a very decided astringency would be a very good pear. 



It is ripe in the first week of November. 



Louise d'Avranches. See Louise Bonne of Jersey. 



LOUISE BONNE. Fruit, large ; pyriform. Skin, very smooth, 

 bright green, changing as it ripens to yellowish green, strewed with 

 brown and green dots, and a few markings of russet. Eye, small and 

 open, scarcely at all depressed. Stalk about half an inch or less long, 

 fleshy at the base, and somewhat obliquely inserted by the side of a 

 fleshy prominence. Flesh, white, juicy, and half-melting, with an 

 excellent and perfumed flavour. 



An old French dessert pear ; ripe during November and December. 

 The tree is vigorous and an excellent bearer, succeeds well as a 

 standard, and prefers the pear to the quince stock. It was long grown 

 in our gardens, but since the introduction of the Flemish varieties its 

 cultivation is abandoned. 



It originated in Poitou, on the property of a lady whose Christian name was 

 Louise, and hence the name was derived. 



LOUISE BONNE OF JERSEY (Beurre d'Avranches; Bonne 

 d'Avranches; Bonne de Lonyueval ; Bonne Louise d'Arandore; Louise 

 d'Avranches; William the Fourth]. Fruit, medium sized ; pyriform. 

 Skin, smooth, yellow on the shaded side, but crimson next the sun, 

 covered with crimson and russety dots. Eye, small and open, set in a 

 rather deep basin. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, obliquely 



