THE PEARS OF NE YORK 441 
Lacroix. 1. Gard. Chron. 3d Ser. 1:442. 1887. 
Published in Revue Horticole in 1887. Fruit medium, regular pyriform, yellow blushed 
and spotted with red on the exposed side; flesh white, flavor said to be like that of Easter 
Beurré; Dec. and Jan. 
Lady Clapp. 1. Ill. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 178. 1896. 2. Ellwanger & Barry Cat. 17. 1900. 
Fruit large, yellow; flesh juicy, melting, vinous; first; Sept., following Bartlett. 
Lafayette. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 796. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:13, fig. 199. 
1879. 
Originated in Connecticut. Fruit small, globular-pyriform, pale yellow, stained with 
russet, passing at maturity to lemon-yellow and the russet becoming golden, numerous 
dots of gray-brown; flesh yellowish, rather fine, melting, slightly gritty at the core, buttery, 
very juicy, sweet but lacking flavor; medium; Oct. 
Lahérard. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:324, fig. 1860. 
Origin uncertain, but attributed to Van Mons. Fruit above medium, ovate, mam- 
millate at summit, sometimes rather elongated but generally more swelled at the middle, 
thin-skinned, yellow-ochre or greenish-yellow, vermilioned on the face exposed to the sun, 
dotted with fine specks and stains of gray especially around the calyx; flesh white, fine, 
melting, juicy, rather granular around the core; juice abundant, very sugary, acid, and 
having an exquisite savor; first; Oct. 
Lammas. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 418. 1831. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 601. 1884. 
Originated possibly in the Highlands of Scotland, being recommended for that district 
by Lindley. Grown alsoin England. Fruit below medium, pyramidal, regular pale yellow, 
streaked with red next the sun; flesh melting, tender, juicy, agreeable; good; Aug. 
Lammerbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:54. 1856. 
German. Franken, Bavaria, 1809. Fruit below medium. ovate-conic, whitish-green; 
flesh hard, juicy, somewhat aromatic, and sweet and acid; third for table, first for cooking 
and market; July. 
Lancaster. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 119. 1875. 
A seedling grown by T. 5. Lancaster, Gloucester, Mass., and exhibited in 1875. Fruit 
medium, oblong-pyriform, yellow, with brown-russet; flesh coarse, juicy, buttery; hardly 
good; late autumn. 
Landsberger Malvasier. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:126. 1856. 
Raised by Burchardt at Landsberg, Ger., 1851. Fruit medium, often large, conic, 
even sides, dark yellow, speckled with russet dots; flesh rather white, buttery, melting; 
very valuable, first for dessert and market; Nov. and Dec. 
Langbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:2. 1856. 2. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 245. 
1889. 
D’Ane. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:129, fig. 1867. 
Switzerland and Germany, 1804; particularly popular in the former country where it 
is very generally cultivated, and often known as the Etrangle. Fruit medium or above, 
very long, like Calebasse in form, greenish-yellow turning to lemon-yellow, somewhat 
blushed, and speckled with dots of greenish-gray; first for culinary use; end of Aug. 
