According to William Parry, Parry, New Jersey, Lincoln Coreless originated in Lincoln County, Tennessee, near the Alabama line, about 1830. The original tree was rated as productive and free from blight, and young trees propagated from it have been unusually healthy and vigorous. The variety was introduced about 1890 by William Parry. Tree small, vigorous, upright, very dense, pyramidal, hardy, an uncertain bearer; trunk shaggy; branches smooth, zigzag, reddish-brown mingled with ash-gray, marked with small lenticels; branchlets short to medium, dull brown, smooth, glabrous, with conspicuous lenticels. Leaf-buds large, obtuse, plump, appressed. Leaves 3 in. long, 1-5/8 in. wide, elongated-oval, leathery; apex taper-pointed; margin finely serrate; petiole 1-1/2 in. long, reddish; stipules very long. Flower-buds short, obtuse, plump, free; flowers 1-3/4 in. across, very large and showy, average 6 buds in a cluster; pedicels 1-5/8 in. long, thick, pubescent, pale green. Fruit ripe in February; very large, 4-3/4 in. long, 3 in. wide, uniform in size, obovate-acute-pyriform, somewhat ribbed, with unequal sides; stem 1-3/8 in. long, thick, curved; cavity obtuse, shallow, narrow, russeted, furrowed, often lipped; calyx open, large; lobes separated at the base, narrow, acute; basin very shallow, narrow, obtuse, furrowed; skin very thick, tough, coarse and granular, smooth, dull; color greenish-yellow, with a handsome blush on the cheek exposed to the sun; dots many, brownish-russet, very conspicuous; flesh yellowish-white, very firm, granular at the core, crisp, tough, medium juicy, rather bitter and astringent; quality poor. Core closed, with clasping core-lines; calyx-tube long, wide, conical; seeds few, narrow, often abortive, acute. [Illustration: LOUISE BONNE DE JERSEY] LOUISE BONNE DE JERSEY =1.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 148. 1841. =2.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 53. 1852. =3.= Field _Pear Cult._ 218, fig. 81. 1858. _Louise Bonne of Jersey._ =4.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 397, fig. 174. 1845. =5.= Hovey _Fr. Am._ =1=:39, Pl. 1851. =6.= _Jour. Hort._ N. S. =38=:161, fig. 26. 1880. =7.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 606. 1884. _Gute Louise von Avranches._ =8.= Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =2=:138. 1856. =9.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 229. 1889. _Bonne Louise d'Avranches._ =10.= _Ann. Pom. Belge_ =6=:29, Pl. 1858. =11.= _Pom. France_ =1=: No. 21, Pl. 21. 1863. =12.= Mas _Le Verger_ =3=: Pt. 1, 67, fig. 32. 1866-73. =13.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =1=:482, fig. 1867. =14.= _Guide Prat._ 286. 1876. _Louise._ =15.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 23. 1897. =16.= Ont. Dept. Agr. _Fr. Ont._ 170, fig. 1914.