Lord Fauconberg Mignonne. 1. Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 261, 262. 1831.
An old English variety known as early as 1769. Leaves doubly serrate, without glands; flowers small; fruit above medium in size, ovate, deeply sutured, pale yellow, with wide splashes of deep, dull red; flesh yellowish-white, red at the stone, juicy; stone free, rather flat; ripens the middle of September.
Lord Palmerston. 1. Hogg Fruit Man. 225. 1866. 2. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 621. 1869. 3. Lauche Ergänzungsband 715 fig., 716. 1883. 4. Hogg Fruit Man. 452. 1884.
Palmerston. 5. Mich. Sta. Bul. 169:222. 1899.
This variety was raised by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, England, from a pit of Princess of Wales. Fruit large, roundish, inclined to oval, with a distinct suture; color yellowish-white, with a red blush; flesh creamy-white, red at the pit which is somewhat adherent, juicy, firm, mild; quality good; season the last of September.
Lorentz. 1. Reid Cat. 33 fig. 1894. 2. Mich. Sta. Bul. 169:204, 219. 1899. 3. Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 7:54. 1900. 4. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:350. 1903. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 38. 1909.
Lorentz is supposed to have come from a seedling tree found about 1889 in the orchard of Fred Lorentz, Marshall County, West Virginia. It was introduced about 1894 by E. W. Reid, Bridgeport, Ohio. Fruit of medium size, roundish, compressed, with a shallow suture; color yellow, blushed with red; flesh yellow, red at the pit, juicy, tender, mild, free; quality good; season early October.
Lottie. 1. Fla. Sta. Rpt. 8:89. 1896.
Grown by the Florida Experiment Station.
Loudon. 1. Carrière Var. Pêchers 60, 61. 1867.
Tree moderately vigorous, very productive; glands reniform; flowers very large; fruit large, oblate; skin downy, marbled with deep red; flesh whitish-yellow, stained near the pit, melting, juicy, aromatic, sweet; stone free, oval; ripens at the end of August.