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spots, large and numerous; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, with abundant sugary juice, vinous, 

 sprightly and musky; good; Oct. 



Franc-Real, i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:180. 1768. 2. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:194, 

 fig. 1869. 



Franc Real d'Hiver. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 766. 1869. 



Mentioned by Charles Estienne in 1540, and other French authorities of the seven- 

 teenth century. Fruit above medium and often larger, globular-turbinate and bossed, 

 golden-yellow, strewed with large russet dots, and some brownish-red patches; flesh very 

 white, breaking, juicy, hardly sweet, rather acid, without perfume; first for cooking; Nov. 

 to Feb. 

 Frances, i. Mag. Hort. 11:252. 1845. 



A seedling raised by the Hon. H. W. Edwards of New Haven, Conn., and first published 

 in 1845. Similar to Virgouleuse, rather large, and not so sweet. 

 Franchimont. i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 766. 1869. 



Supposed French origin. Fruit below medium, globular-oblate, yellow shaded with 

 red in the sun, netted and patched with russet, many russet dots; flesh yellowish, juicy, 

 semi-melting, sweet, slightly aromatic; good or very good; Sept. and Oct. 

 Franchipanne. i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:210, PI. XLVII, fig. 2. 1768. 2. Hogg 

 Fruit Man. 582. 1884. 



Frangipane. 3. Leroy Diet. Pom. 2:196, fig. 1869. 



This is the Franchipanne of Duhamel but not of Merlet, 1690, as Hogg and Leroy 

 prove. Its origin is uncertain. Fruit medium or above, obtuse-pyriform, yellowish-green 

 or lemon-yellow, dotted and veined with russet, dark deep red next the sun; flesh green- 

 ish-white, semi-fine and semi-melting, juicy, tender, buttery, perfume supposed to resemble 

 Frangipani, a scent invented by the Marquis of that name; a dessert pear; Oct. and 

 Nov. 

 Francis, i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 43. 1866. 



A seedling raised by Dr. Shurtleff, Brookline, Mass., which fruited in 1862. Fruit 

 medium, turbinate; skin tough and rather liable to crack, dark green; flesh fine-grained, 

 white and delicate, with a flavor inclining to that of White Doyenne'; first; Nov. 

 Francis Dana. i. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 80. 1877. 



One of several seedling plants given by Francis Dana to Eliphalet Stone who in 1877 

 showed its fruit. Fruit medium, globular-acute-pyriform, clear lemon-yellow, with trac- 

 ings of thin russet; flesh buttery, juicy, good quality but not up to best; Sept. 

 Francois Hutin. i. Guide Prat. 92. 1895. 



Fruit very large, long-turbinate, dark yellow; flesh fine, white, melting, juicy, sugary, 

 acid; Oct. 

 Frangipane d'Hiver. i. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:105, fig. 533. 1881. 



Origin unknown. Is not to be confused with Franchipanne, a smaller ball pear. Fruit 

 large, turbinate, much swelled at center; skin thin, intense green, sprinkled with numerous 

 dots of a darker shade, changing to lemon-yellow at maturity, with some blush of brown-red 

 or orange-red; flesh white, breaking, not very sweet, somewhat acidulous, with an aromatic 

 flavor; suitable for kitchen use; all through the winter. 



