454 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
Lucné Hative. 1. Noisette Man. Comp. Jard. 2:525. 1860. 
Tree vigorous and productive. Fruit medium, elongated, pale green; flesh semi- 
melting, sugary, moderately perfumed; good; Sept. 
Lucy Grieve. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 607. 1884. 
English; bore fruit first in 1873. Named in honor of the little girl who planted and 
tended the seed, but died before the tree fruited. Fruit large, oval, rather uneven in 
outline, bossed around the waist and about the calyx, lemon-yellow, with occasionally 
a brownish-red blush on the side next the sun, sprinkled with cinnamon-colored dots; 
flesh white, tender, melting, very juicy and richly flavored; first; Oct. 
Luola. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 135. 1920. 
Said to be a cross between Seckel and Dana Hovey originated by W. C. Eckard, Water- 
vliet, Mich., about 1907. Fruit very small, globular, greenish-yellow, with faint blush, 
very rich; excellent; Oct. 
Lutovka. 1. Me. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 62, 63. 1899. 
Russian. Introduced in 1882. Fruit large; good; mid-season. 
Lutzbirne. 1. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 2:190. 1856. 
German, published in 1801. Fruit medium, obtuse-conic, dull greenish-yellow, slightly 
blushed, strongly dotted, marked with russet, and covered with rusty russet on the sun- 
exposed side; flesh granular, gritty near center, semi-melting, aromatic; first for culinary 
uses; Sept. 
Luxemburger Mostbirne. 1. Léschnig Mostbirnen 128, fig. 1913. 
A perry pear widely distributed in France, Luxemburg, Germany and Austria. Fruit 
large, globular-oblate, like Bergamot in form, gray-green turning yellow-green when ripe 
sprinkled with large russet dots and specklings; flesh whitish, coarse-grained, unusually 
juicy, astringent and sweet flavor; end of Sept. 
Lycurgus. 1. Horticulturist 12:365. 1857. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 806, fig. 1869. 
Originated with George Hood, Cleveland, Ohio, from seed of Winter Nelis. The tree 
is productive, and of rather spreading growth. Fruit small, oblong-pyriform, greenish- ; 
yellow, much covered with thin brownish-russet, many large grayish dots; flesh yellowish, 
juicy, melting, sweet, rich, rather aromatic, having some perfume; first, one of the best in 
quality of late winter pears: Dec. to Feb. 
Lydie Thiérard. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 806. 1869. 2. Guide Prat. 99. 1876. 
Originated from a seed of Crassane by Jules Thiérard, Bethel, Fr. Fruit rather large, 
Bergamot-shaped, clear green, dotted; flesh fine, very melting, sugary, perfumed; first; 
Jan. to Mar. 
Lyerle. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 44. 1897. 
Raised by a Mr. Lyerle, Union County, Ill., in 1881 from seed of Bartlett. Fruit 
medium, pyriform, yellowish-green, with numerous patches of russet; flesh sugary; good; 
early July, four weeks ahead of Bartlett. 
Lyon. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 807. 1869. 
Orignated at Newport, R. I. Fruit medium, oblong-obovate or Doyenné-shaped, 
yellow, thick and smooth skin, finely dotted, blushed; flesh coarse, a little gritty at core, 
vinous; very good; Oct. 
