THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 449 
Loire-de-Mons. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 3:109, fig. 151. 1878. 
A gain of M. Loire, at Mons, Bel. Fruit medium, turbinate, or globular-turbinate, 
usually regular in contour; skin rather fine and tender, clear and bright green, sprinkled 
with gray-green dots; at maturity the green becomes clear lemon and golden on the side of 
the sun; flesh white, fine, very melting, full of juice, acidulous, delicately perfumed; first; 
end of Sept. 
London Sugar. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 343. 1831. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 60s. 
1884. 
English. Much cultivated in Norfolk for the Norwich market. Fruit below medium, 
turbinate, pale green approaching lemon-yellow at maturity, with a slight brownish tinge; 
flesh tender, melting; juice saccharine and of a rich, musky flavor; an excellent early fruit; 
end of July. 
Long Green. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 803. 1869. 
Belgische Zapfenbirne. 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:139. 1856. 
Longue-Verte. 3. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:349, fig. 1860. 
Grune Lange Herbstbirne. 4. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 228. 1889. 
This French pear is distinct from the Verte Longue which is synonymous with Verte 
Longue d’Automne, though these two pears have been confused and have various names 
in common. It has been cultivated in France for the last 100 years. Longue Verte has 
ten French synonyms. Fruit above medium, very long, fig-like in form, narrowed from 
middle to stalk, acute, grass-green passing to brownish-green on the face exposed to the 
sun, uniformly sprinkled with dots of gray-russet; flesh greenish-white, fine or semi-fine, 
melting, rather granular around the seeds; juice abundant, saccharine, sweet, with a char- 
acteristic perfume, often very slight; second; Sept. 
Long Green of Autumn. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 804. 1869. 
Verte-Longue d’Automne. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:729, fig. 1869. 
Lange grine Herbstbirne. 3. Liegel Syst. Anlett. 112. 1825. 
The Long Green of Autumn, better known abroad as the Verte-Longue d’Automne 
or Verte-Longue, must be distinguished from the Long Green or Longue-Verte. It is of 
very ancient origin and mentioned in the catalog, published by Le Lectier, King’s Attorney, 
in 1628, of the immense nursery he created in 1598. The German author Henri Manger, 
1783, considered the Verte-Longue identical with the Viridium of Pliny. Fruit medium 
to large, turbinate, slightly obtuse, often larger on one side than on the other, green clouded 
with pale yellow, speckled with large gray spots and very rarely blushed on the exposed 
side; flesh white, fine, melting, very full of a saccharine, well-flavored, musky juice; first 
when its juice is well perfumed, but rather variable; Oct. 
Long Green of Esperin. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 804. 1869. 
Belgian. Fruit medium, oblong-ovate-pyriform, greenish-yellow, blushed with crimson 
on the cheek next the sun, patched and netted with russet, with numerous brown dots; 
flesh yellowish-white, juicy, semi-melting, vinous; good; Sept. 
Longland. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 415. 1831. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 605. 1884. 
A very old English perry pear chiefly grown in Herefordshire. Fruit small, turbinate, 
even, rather handsomely shaped, bright gold, tinged and mottled all over with a 
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