PLATE LX. 
i. LEON LECLERE DE LAVAL. 
[Syn : Lion Leclere ; Best de Caen.] 
This variety is one of the many fine pears raised by Van Mons (c. 1820—30.) 
Description .—Fruit : large, sometimes very large, long, obovate and rounding towards the 
eye. Skin : smooth and shining, yellow, strewed with brown dots, and marked with tracings of 
russet. Eye : large, with long, straight, narrow segments, and set in a shallow basin. Stalk : an 
inch and a half long, inserted without depression by the side of a fleshy lip. Flesh : white, half 
melting or crisp, juicy, sweet and perfumed. 
An excellent stewing pear. It is in season from January until May or June. 
The tree grows freely, and when full grown bears well. It is best grown on the pear stock 
on an extensive wall, but may be grown as a dwarf standard on the quince. 
