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, Watervliet, 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 Führ. 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. Löschnig Mostbirnen 128, fig. 1913.