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sprinkled with bright brown spots, and largely stained with fawn about calyx and stem 
and often also on the side next the sun; flesh yellowish-white, semi-fine, and dense, melt- 
ing, seldom gritty and rarely has seeds; juice abundant, sugary, acidulous, savory but 
often with an excessive taste of musk, spoiling its delicacy; first; end of Sept. 
Le Congo. 1. Guide Prat.9o5. 1895. 
Distributed by M. Daras de Naghin, Antwerp, Bel., and in the trial orchards of Messrs. 
Simon-Louis, Metz, Lorraine, in 1895. Tree vigorous and fairly prolific. Fruit medium; 
flesh semi-fine, very saccharine and highly scented; Nov. and Dec. 
Le Lecher. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 4:334. 1888. 
This seedling, raised by A. Lesuer, Ypres, Bel., resulted from Bartlett fertilized with 
Fortunée. Fruit large, pyriform, yellow, spotted with drab spots; flesh white, juicy, sugary, 
brisk and perfumed, free from grit; Jan. to Mar. 
Leclerc-Thouin. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:330, fig. 1869. 
Raised by M. André Leroy at Angers, Fr., and fruited first in 1867. Fruit above 
medium, conic, very obtuse and generally more curved on one side than on the other; skin 
uneven, clear yellow, clouded with green and partially covered with russet on which appear 
small specks of gray; flesh whitish, semi-fine, watery, very melting, granular around the 
core; juice sugary, vinous and slightly acid, perfumed flavor; first; Sept. 
Lederbirne. 1. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 89. 1845. 2. Léschnig Mostbirnen 202, fig. 
1913. 
An Austrian perry pear. Fruit medium, truncated-pyriform, somewhat bossed and 
irregular in outline, leaf-green turning greenish-yellow, gray russet dots, blushed on the 
sunny side; flesh yellow-white, coarse-grained, very juicy, subacid; Oct. to Dec. 
Lee. 1. Elliott Fr. Book 375. 1854. 
Originated at Salem, Mass. Fruit small to medium, globular-oval, greenish-russet, 
brown in the sun; flesh white, coarse, juicy, good; Sept. 
Lee Seckel. 1. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 565. 1885. 
Fruit medium to large, obovate, rich russet; flesh buttery, rich, perfumed; very good; 
Sept. 
Léger. 1. Guide Prat.g5. 1895. 
Obtained from a seed bed of Winter Nelis by M. Sannier. Tree of moderate vigor, 
fertile and suitable for all forms of culture. Fruit medium, globular-ovate; flesh fine, 
acidulous; Oct. 
Lehoferbirne. 1. Léschnig Mostbirnen 126, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear widely distributed in Upper and Lower Austria under various names. 
Fruit medium to large, globular-pyriform, leaf-green turning yellow at maturity, dotted 
and marked with russet, well-exposed fruit blushed; flesh yellow-white, coarse-grained, very 
juicy, astringent, saccharine, acidulous; mid-Oct. and keeps in storage till end of Nov. 
Leipziger Rettigbirn. 1. Lauche Deut. Pom. II:No. 92, Pl. g2. 1883. 
Radis de Leipsick. 2. Mas Le Verger 2:125, fig. 61. 1866-73. 
Leipsic Radish. 3. Can. Exp. Farms. Rpt. 379. 1902. 
Originated at Duben near Leipsic, Saxony. It was published by Diel in 1807. Fruit 
small, nearly spherical or spherical-ovate, a little more constricted at the stem end then 
