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Lansac. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2%241, Pl. LVII. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 
23326, 327, fig. 1869. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 602. 1884. 
Herbsibirne ohne Schale. Ap Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:86. 1856. 
Originated at Hazé near Tours, Fr. Merlet described it in 1667. In the catalog of 
the Chartreuse Fathers, Paris, there occurs in 1736 the following passage. ‘‘ The Pear de 
Lansac, or Dauphin, which many authors name Satin...... was presented for the first 
time to Louis XIV....by Madame de Lansac...... ” As King Louis ascended the throne 
in 1638 the pear would seem to have been originated between that year and 1857, the year 
in which Madame de Lansac died. Fruit medium, sometimes less, globular-turbinate, 
dull yellow, sprinkled with numerous minute, russet dots; flesh fine, yellowish-white, 
melting, juicy, sweet, rich, aromatic, with an after-flavor of anis; second, but first when the 
flesh is well perfumed; Oct. to Dec. 
Large Duchess. 1. Ala. Sta. Bul. 30:12. 18091. 
A variety of Oriental type planted at the Agricultural Experiment Station at Auburn, 
Ala., in 1885. It was reported in 1891 as free from blight, and still on trial. 
Larissa. 1. Mag. Hort. 19:517. 1853. 
Submitted to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in 1853 as a seedling by a Mr. 
Ladd of Philadelphia. Fruit small, obovate-pyriform, greenish-yellow, a good deal russeted, 
with a mottled red cheek; flesh rather dry, saccharine and pleasant; scarcely good. 
Laure Gilbert. 1. Guide Prat.95. 1895. 
Distributed by M. Gilbert, Antwerp, Bel., in 1886. The fruit bears much resem- 
blance to that of the Chaumontel, but its flesh is much more melting and its flavor more 
sprightly; Oct. . : 
Laure de Glymes. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:328, fig. 1869. 
The parent tree was raised from a seed bed made by Van Mons in 1827 at Louvain. 
Fruit ovate, or more or less globular and swelled, nearly always mammillate at summit; 
skin thick, bronzed, having on the side next the sun some orange-yellow; flesh white, semi- 
melting, watery, gritty about the core; juice sufficient, sweet, vinous, perfumed; second; 
Sept. 
Laxton Bergamot. 1. Gard. Chron. 26:497. 1886. 2. Jour. Hort. 132339. 1887. 
A new seedling pear shown by a Mr. Laxton, Bedford, Eng., at the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society’s meeting at South Kensington in October, 1886. Tree fertile and the fruits 
are not easily blown off by the wind. Fruit small, exceedingly juicy and rich; a delicious 
pear. 
Le Breton. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 798. 1869. 
Origin unknown. Fruit medium, obovate, obtuse-pyriform, irregular, yellow, netted 
and patched with russet, with numerous russet dots; flesh yellowish, rather coarse at core, 
melting, juicy, sweet, aromatic; good; Nov. to Jan. 
Le Brun. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 1:503, fig. 1867. 2. Bunyard Handb. Hardy Fr. 183. 
1920. . 
M. Gueniot, nurseryman at Troyes, Fr., sowed seeds the plants from which fruited 
in 1862. One of these he named Le Brun. Fruit above medium to large, oblong-conic, 
slightly obtuse and generally bossed and rather contorted about the summit, bright yellow, 
