Obs. The name of a variety of cherry.
16[?]. MS. Ashm., 1461, lf. 19. The Luke ward Chery ripe June the 10.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort., June (1679), 18. Cherries
Luke-ward, early Flanders [etc.].
1707. Mortimer, Husb. (1721), II. 297. The
Lukeward, one of the best of Cherries.