Full description and color plate in Hedrick (1921). Introduced by Wilcomb and King, Flushing, Long Island, New York, 1843. Said to be a cross of St. Germain and White Doyenne. Fruit medium or smaller in size and varies from obovate-obtuse-pyriform to globular-obtuse-pyriform in shape. Skin greenish-yellow in color with dark green dots, sometimes blushed. Flesh white, medium fine, juicy, tender but not melting, considerable grit at the core. Fairly sweet but lacking in distinctive flavor characteristics. Tree of medium vigor, upright-spreading in habit, dark green, crinkly foliage. Moderately susceptible to fire blight. -- H. Hartman 1959.There is a great diversity of opinion as to the value of Lawrence for a market pear, but no one denies it a place as one of the very best early winter pears for the home orchard. The tree is hardy, moderately vigorous and fruitful, an early, annual, and uniform bearer, and has the reputation of being one of the longest lived of all pear trees. The fruits are of but medium size, but are trim in contour and distinctive in shape because of the rounded, truncate stem end; and in color are a bright clean lemon-yellow, marked with patches of russet and faintly blushed on the side to the sun. No yellow pear is more attractive. The fruits come in season in early winter and have the excellent character of keeping well under ordinary care for a full month or longer. The melting flesh abounds with a rich, sugary, perfumed juice, by virtue of which it is justly esteemed as the best flavored pear of its season. Lawrence is a chance seedling, a native of Flushing, Long Island, and was introduced in 1843.