THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 453 
speckled with fine gray dots and stained with light brown around the calyx and stem; 
flesh white, semi-fine, breaking or semi-breaking, granular at center; juice abundant, very 
saccharine, acidulous, pleasantly perfumed; second; Sept. 
Louison. 1. Prince Pom. Man. 1:86. 1831. 
French. Fruit large, oblong and almost conical, terminated obtusely; skin delicate 
and smooth, sometimes washed on the sunny side, and in other cases pretty deeply tinged 
with red, speckled with brownish-red dots, the other side being of a beautiful yellow, scat- 
tered with specks of russet; flesh very white, melting, full of very pleasant juice, slightly 
perfumed but not of high flavor; early Oct. 
Lovaux. 1. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 48. 1871. 
Reported by the Committee on Foreign Fruits of the Ohio State Horticultural Society 
as a new variety which they recommended. Fruit large to medium, juicy, sweet, melting; 
good; Sept. 
Liibecker Prinzessin Birne. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 249. 1880. 
Princesse de Lubeck. 2. Guide Prat. 103. 1876. 
German; extensively cultivated about Lubeck, Ger. Fruit medium, long-pyriform, 
beautiful yellow, extensively covered with brilliant crimson; flesh breaking, juicy; good; 
beginning of Aug. 
Lubin. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:187, fig. 579. 1881. 
A seedling found by M. Pariset of Curciat-Dongalon, Ain, Fr.; first reported in 1869. 
Fruit medium, conic-pyriform, regular in its contour, obtuse, having its largest circum- 
ference well below its middle; skin fine, delicate, at first a clear and bright green, sprinkled 
with very numerous round, small, brown dots only very slightly visible on the side of the 
sun; at maturity the basic green passes to lemon-yellow, with a golden hue on the exposed 
side; flesh whitish, very fine, melting, juicy, saccharine, slightly vinous, acidulous; good; 
winter. 
Lucie Audusson. 1. Pom. France 4:No. 172, Pl. 172. 1865. 
"Obtained by Alexis Audusson, Angers, Fr.; first published in 1861. Fruit large, long, 
nearly cylindrical, obtuse and slightly narrowed toward the stem, grass-green, finely dotted 
and speckled with fawn-colored russet; flesh yellowish-white, fine or semi-fine, melting; 
juice abundant, sugary, vinous, delicately perfumed; first; mid-Nov. to end of Dec. 
Lucien Chauré. 1. Guide Prat.95. 1895. 
Obtained by Arséne Sannier, Rouen, Fr. Tree healthy, vigorous and adaptable for 
all forms of growth. Fruit medium, grayish-yellow; flesh melting, juicy, fine and sugary; 
Oct. and Nov. 
Lucien Leclercq. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:366, fig. 1869. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 
806. 1869. 
From a seed bed made by Van Mons in 1829, but it did not bear fruit till after his 
death in 1844. Fruit below medium and sometimes rather larger, globular-ovate, regular, 
tarely bossed, pale yellow on the shaded side and darker yellow where exposed, dotted all 
over with fine gray and green spots; flesh white, coarse, semi-melting and juicy, sugary, 
acidulous, and aromatic, very gritty around the core; second; latter half of Aug. 
