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Glands small, globose, often lacking; flowers small; fruit large, oblong; skin white, 

 rather downy, covered with dark red where exposed; flesh red at the stone, somewhat 

 firm, juicy, vinous but not rich; ripens early in August. 



Fay Early Anne. i. Cultivator ^rd Ser. 1:91. 1853. 2. Am. Pom. Sac. Rpt. 41. 1856. 

 3. Ibid. 78. 1862. 



Anne Precoce de Fay. 4. Mas Le Verger 7:101, 102, fig. 49. 1866-73. 



A seedling of Anne, grown by Lincoln Fay, Chautauqua County, New York. It held 

 a place in the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society from 1862 until 1869. Tree 

 hardy and productive; glands reniform; flowers small; fruit of medium size, roundish; skin 

 creamy- white, sometimes faintly tinged with red where exposed; flesh white, juicy, rich; 

 ripens two weeks before Early Crawford. 

 Fei Tau. i. W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 21. 1909. 



Cions of the Fei Tau peach were brought to America by Frank N. Meyer, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, from the province of Fei Tcheng, China. 

 Felicia, i. Leroy Diet. Pom. 6:117, 118 fig. 1879. 



Charles Buisson, Tronche, Isfere, France, grew this variety in 1863. Glands usually 

 lacking; flowers small; fruit of medium size, roundish-oval, halves unequal, with a mamelon 

 tip at the apex ; faintly sutured ; skin thick, heavily pubescent, whitish-yellow, washed and 

 striped with carmine; flesh yellowish-white to the stone, firm, fibrous, juicy, vinous, with 

 an after taste; stone smaU, ovoid, free; ripens the last of September. 

 Felt Rareripe, i. Gregg Fruit Cult. 100. 1877. 



The chief characteristic of this variety is that it reproduces itself from seed. It 

 originated with Cyrus Felt, Monte Bello, Illinois; fruit large, yellow-fleshed, freestone; 

 ripens the last of August. 



Ferdinand, i. Fla. Sta. Rpt. 8:89. 1896. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 1897. 3. Fla. 

 Sta. Bid. 73 : 144. 1904. 



Ferdinand is a seedling of Honey raised by G. L. Taber, Glen Saint Mary, Florida, in 

 1892. It was entered on the fruit-list of the American Pomological Society in 1897 but was 

 dropped in 1899. Fruit roundish, slightly flattened, bulged on one side, large; apex short, 

 blunt, recurved; suture but a line; skin velvety, thick, tough, diill yellow, well covered with 

 dull red; flesh firm, meaty, white, streaked with red; flavor insipid, poor; stone cHnging, 

 oval, plump, short; season early in July. 

 Fetters, i. Card. Mon. 16:315. 1874. 



John Fetters, Lancaster, Ohio, raised this white-fleshed freestone from a pit of Lemon 

 Cling. 



Fine Jaboulay. i. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 395. 1889. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 99 fig. 

 1906. 



Thought to have originated with Armand Jaboulay, Oullins, Rhone, France. Leaves 

 with reniform glands; flowers of mediimi size; fruit large, roimdish, with a very small, 

 mamelon tip at the apex ; skin marbled and washed with red on a yellow ground ; flesh white, 

 melting, vinous, aromatic; quality very good; ripens the middle of September.* 

 Finley October, i. Del. Sta. Rpt. 5:98. 1892. 

 . Grown near Seaford, Delaware. 



