PEARS. 471 



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. 



LONG-UEVILLE. — 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 previous 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 LonguevlUe, which is grown in the Scotch orchards, and which there is every 

 reason to consider correct, is quite different. Dr. Neill says, " Though the name is 

 now unlcnown in France, it is conjectured that the tree was brought over from that 

 country by The Douglas when Lord of Longueville in the 1 5th century. Trees of 

 it still exist in the old orchards about Jedburgh, and on Tweedside. 



LONDON SUG-AE. — 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 beginni'ng of 

 August. 



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

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

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



LONG STALKED BLANQUET {Blanquet A Long Queue).— ¥imi, 

 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 shght 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 Bergmnotte de Hollande. 



Louis Bosc. See Besi de Montigny. 



Louis Dupont. See Urbaniste. 



Louise d'Avranches. See Louise Bonne of Jersey, 



