56 THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



French Crab. — See Winter Greening. 



FRIAR. Fruit, of good size ; somewhat conical, being broad at the 



base, and narrow at the crown. Skin, dark grass-green on the shaded 

 side, and dark muddy livid red where exposed to the sun. Eye, sunk, 

 and surrounded by four or five obtuse but prominent ridges. Stalk, 

 short and stiflf, notwithstanding which the fruit is generally pendant. 



Specific gravity of its juice, 1073. 



This is a cider apple cultivated in the north-west parts of Hereford- 

 shire, where the climate is cold, and the soil unfavourable, and where 

 proper attention is never paid by the farmer to the management of his 

 cider, which in consequence is generally fit only for the ordinary pur- 

 poses of a farm-house (Knight). 



The trees are vigorous and productive. 



Mr. Knight says, " The Friar probably derived its name from some imagined 

 resemblance between its colour and that of the countenance of a well-fed 

 ecclesiastic." 



Frith Pitcher. See Manks Codlin. 



FROGMORE PROLIFIC. — Fruit, large, roundish, very regular in 

 outline. Skin, smooth, of a pale greenish yellow, shghtly streaked and 

 shaded with crimson on the side next the sun. Eye, rather small, 

 closed in a deeply-sunk regular basin. Stalk, long, slender, very 

 deeply inserted. Flesh, white, very tender, juicy, and sweet. 



In use from September to Christmas. Its great merit, however, 

 rests in its cooking qualities, being one of the finest which is sent into 

 the Royal household. 



This was raised in the gardens at Frogmore by the late Mr. Ingram. 



Fry's Pippin. See Court of Wick. 



GALLOWAY PIPPIN (Croft-en-Reich).— Fruit, large, three inches 

 and a half wide, and two inches and three quarters high ; roundish, 

 and obscurely angular round the basin of tiie eye. Skin, smooth, 

 of a greenish yellow colour on the shaded side, and of a pale thin red, 

 gradually blending into the yellow, on that exposed to the sun, strewed 

 with russet dots, and here and there traces of russet. Eye, large and 

 open, like that of Dumelow's Seedhng, with short depauperated 

 segments set in a pretty deep basin, which is uneven. Stalk, very 

 short, imbedded in the deep cavity, which is smooth. Flesh, yellowish 

 with a greenish tinge, and somewhat perfumed, tender, briskly 

 flavoured. 



A first-rate kitchen apple, in use till the end of January. 



This variety has been cultivated near Wigtown, in Galloway, from time 

 immemorial. 



GANGES.— Fruit, rather large and cylindrical, with angles on the 

 sides, extending from tho base to the apex. Skin, pale grass-green, 

 assuming a yellowish tinge by keeping, and with a blush of red on the 

 side next the sun, marked with short broken streaks of crimson. Eye, 



