THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 453 



speckled with fine gray clots and stained with light brown around the calyx and stem; 

 flesh white, semi-fine, breaking or semi-breaking, granular at center; juice abundant, very 

 saccharine, acidulous, pleasantly perfumed; second; Sept. 

 Louison. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 1:86. 1831. 



French. Fruit large, oblong and almost conical, terminated obtusely; skin delicate 

 and smooth, sometimes washed on the sunny side, and in other cases pretty deeply tinged 

 with red, speckled with brownish-red dots, the other side being of a beautiful yellow, scat- 

 tered with specks of russet; flesh very white, melting, full of very pleasant juice, slightly 

 perfumed but not of high flavor; early Oct. 

 Lovaux. 1. Ohio Hart. Soc. Rpt. 4S. TS71. 



Reported by the Committee on Foreign Fruits of the Ohio State Horticultural Society 

 as a new variety which they recommended. Fruit large to medium, juicy, sweet, melting; 

 good; Sept. 

 Liibecker Prinzessin Birne. 1. Mathieu Xorn. Pom. 249. 18S9. 



Princesse de Lubeck. 2. Guide Prat. 103. 1876. 



German; extensively cultivated about Lubeck, Ger. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, 

 beautiful yellow, extensively covered with brilliant crimson; flesh breaking, juicy; good; 

 beginning of Aug. 

 Lubin. 1. IMas Pom. Gen. 7:187, fig. 579. 1881. 



A seedling found by M. Pariset of Curciat-Dongalon, Ain, Fr. ; first reported in 1869. 

 Fruit medium, conic-pyriform, regular in its contour, obtuse, having its largest circum- 

 ference well below its middle ; skin fine, delicate, at first a clear and bright green, sprinkled 

 with very numerous round, small, brown dots only very slightly visible on the side of the 

 sun ; at maturity the basic green passes to lemon-yellow, with a golden hue on the exposed 

 side; flesh whitish, very fine, melting, juicy, saccharine, slightly vinous, acidulous; good; 

 winter. 

 Lucie Audusson. 1. Pom. France 4 :No. 172, PI. 172. 1865. 



Obtained by Alexis Audusson, Angers, Fr. ; first published in 1S61. Fruit large, long, 

 nearly cylindrical, obtuse and slightly narrowed toward the stem, grass-green, finely dotted 

 and speckled with fawn-colored russet; flesh yellowish- white, fine or semi-fine, melting; 

 juice abundant, sugary, vinous, delicately perfumed; first; mid-Nov. to end of Dec. 

 Lucien Chaure. 1. Guide Prat. 95. 1895. 



Obtained by Arsene Sannier, Rouen, Fr. Tree healthy, vigorous and adaptable for 

 all forms of growth. Fruit medium, grayish-yellow; flesh melting, juicy, fine and sugary; 

 Oct. and Nov. 



Lucien Leclercq. 1. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:366, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 806. 1869. 



From a seed bed made by Van Mons in 1829, but it did not bear fruit till after his 

 death in 1S44. Fruit below medium and sometimes rather larger, globular-ovate, regular, 

 rarely bossed, pale yellow on the shaded side and darker yellow where exposed, dotted all 

 over with fine gray and green spots; flesh white, coarse, semi-melting and juicy, sugary, 

 acidulous, and aromatic, very gritty around the core; second; latter half of Aug. 



