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like it in every respect of shape and colour; marked with a slight 

 suture. Stalk, an inch or more long, very slender. Flesh, quite 

 apricot yellow, rich, sweet, sugary, and of very fine flavour, adhering 

 to the stone. 



This is a seedling of Mr. Kivers, of Sawbridge worth, which fruited 

 for the first time in 1865. It is by far the richest flavoured late 

 plum, and ripens in the end of October and beginning of November. 

 Shoots, smooth. 



Lawrence Gage. See Lawrence's Favourite. 



LAWRENCE'S FAVOURITE (Lawrence Gage). 'Fruit, large; 

 round, and flattened at both ends. Skin, dull yellowish green, streaked 

 with darker green on the side exposed to the sun, veined with brown, 

 and covered all over with thin grey bloom. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh, greenish, tender, melting, and 

 juicy, rich, sugary, and with a fine, vinous, brisk flavour, separating 

 from the stone. 



A delicious dessert plum; ripe in the beginning of September. 

 The tree is a free, upright grower, and an abundant bearer. Young 

 shoots, downy. 



This is an American plum ; raised by Mr. L. U. Lawrence, of Hudson, in the 

 State of New York. 



LAWSON'S GOLDEN (Damas Lawson) .Fruit, rather below 

 medium size ; oval, even and regular in its outline, and marked on one 

 side with a suture, which is a mere line. Stalk, three-quarters of an 

 inch long, inserted without depression. Skin, deep yellow, thickly 

 speckled on the side next the sun with crimson specks and dots. Flesh, 

 yellow, tender, melting, and juicy, with a rich sugary flavour, and 

 adhering to the stone. 



A second-rate dessert plum ; ripe in September. Shoots, smooth. 



It was raised by Mr. Archibald Gorrie, of Annat Gardens, Errol, Perthshire, 

 about the year 1842, and was named as a compliment to Mr. Charles Lawson, 

 nurseryman, of Edinburgh. It is very similar to Imperial Ottoman. 



Leipzig. See Quetsche. 

 De Lepine. See Norbert. 



LIEGEL'S APRICOT (Abricotee de. Braunau Nouvelle). Fruit, 

 about medium size ; roundish, and marked with a deep suture. Skin, 

 green, like the Green Gage, covered with a white bloom, and becoming 

 yellowish as it ripens. Flesh, separating from the stone, greenish 

 yellow, melting, very juicy, rich, and sugary, with a fine and remark- 

 ably sprightly flavour. 



A first-rate dessert plum ; ripe in the end of September. Its fine 

 sprightly flavour is as remarkable among dessert plums as that of the 

 Mayduke is among cherries. Young shoots, downy. 



In the first edition of this work I unintentionally described this variety under 



