THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 403 



flesh whitish-yellow, blood-red at the pit, firm, jiiicy, aromatic; quality good; pit roundish- 

 oval, clinging; ripens at the end of August. 

 Leroy Winter, i. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 276. 1896. 



A late, yellow variety from Missouri. 

 Lewenau Lieblingspfirsich. i. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkmtde 3:207. 1858. 



A seedling of Admirable, raised about 1851. Glands reniform; flowers large, white; 

 fruit roundish, flattened, strongly sutured; skin greenish-yellow, heavily pubescent; flesh 

 white, red at the stone, sprightly; stone free, sharply pointed; matures the middle of 

 September. 



Lewis. I. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 279. 1882. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 33. 1899. 3. Mich. 

 Sta. Sp. Bui. 44:52. 1910. 



Early Lewis. 4. Kan. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 195. 1902-03. 



Lewis is the only white-fleshed seedling which appeared from about one hundred 

 Chili pits, planted by N. W. Lewis, Allegan County, Michigan. The variety was placed 

 on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society in 1899 where it still remains. Tree 

 vigorous, bears early, productive, but subject to leaf-curl; glands reniform; flowers large; 

 fruit medium to large, roundish, slightly flattened at the ends, a trifle irregular; suture 

 shallow; skin smooth, thin, tough, creamy-white, splashed and mottled with crimson: 

 flesh white, juicy, vinous; quality good; stone free, large; season immediately following 

 Hale Early. 

 Libra, i. Garden 64:109. 1903. 2. Bunyard Cat. Fr. Trees 36. 1913-14. 



A seedling raised by R. D. Blackmore and introduced by Will Taylor, Hampton, 

 England. The fruits are large, very juicy; ripen in July. 

 Liefmanns. i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 403. 1889. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Liermann Pfirsich. i. Lauche Ergdnzungsband 711 fig., 712. 1883. 



Tree vigorous, productive; fruit very large, globt-Jar, surface irregular; suture deep, 

 dividing the fruit unevenly; skin tender, yellowish-white, without a blush; flesh tender, 

 juicy, sweet, aromatic; stone roundish, flattened at the base; ripens on a west wall toward 

 the end of August. 

 Lilard October, i. Tex. Sta. Bid. 8:34. 1889. 



Listed as growing on the Station groimds. 

 Lillian, i. III. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 77. 1893. 



Exhibited at the World's Fair in 1893 from Illinois. 

 LLmon. i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 98. 183 1. 



Listed in this reference. 

 Lina Hauser. i. Mas Porn. Gen. 12:186. 1883. 



Lina Lackpfirsich. 2. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 3:214, 215. 1858. 



Glands reniform; flowers small, white; fruit large, roundish, halves tmequal, greenish- 

 yellow and dark red; flesh stained at the pit, aromatic; freestone; ripens the middle of 

 September. 

 Lincoln, i. Cole Am. Fr. Book 194. 1849. 



Lincoln originated in Lincoln, Massachusetts, about 1800. Tree hardy, productive; 



