Raised by Réné Langelier, Jersey, British Channel Islands, about 1840. Fruit medium, obtuse-pyriform, pale greenish-yellow, crimson blush on the side next the sun, covered with russet dots; flesh tender, buttery and melting, with rich and vinous flavor; excellent; Dec. and Jan.
Beurré de Lederbogen. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:51, fig. 218. 1879.
The parent tree of this variety was found about 1829 in the garden of M. Lederbogen near Magdeburg, Prussia. Fruit nearly medium, globular, conic, regular in form, clear bright green, speckled with numerous and regularly spaced, very fine, brown dots; flesh white, semi-fine, melting, with abundant, rich, sugary juice, delicately scented.
Beurré Lefèvre. 1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 799. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 524. 1884.
This variety was distributed by M. Lefèvre of Mortefontaine near Paris in 1846. Fruit large, obovate and sometimes oval, greenish-yellow on the shaded side and much covered with russet, but brownish-orange on the side next the sun, with some streaks of red; flesh white, rather gritty at the core, melting, juicy, rich, aromatic and delicious, soon decays at the core; middle and end of Oct.
Beurré de Lenzen. 1. Guide Prat. 86, 247. 1876.
Fruit large, turbinate, meadow-green; flesh fine, melting, juicy; first; Oct.; tree vigorous.
Beurré Liebart. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:342, figs. 1869. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 4:107, fig. 246. 1879.
Beurré Liebart was raised from seed by Van Mons before 1817 and was dedicated to an amateur pomologist. Fruit large, globular-ovate but rather variable in form, clear yellow, dotted uniformly and streaked with brown-russet, extensively carmined on the side next the sun; flesh whitish, coarse, hard and breaking, rather gritty at the center; juice sufficient, with little sugar and generally acid and without perfume; second or third; end of Sept.