234 THE FKUIT MANUAL. 



Drap d'Or. See Brunswick. 

 Early. See Brown Turkey. 

 Early Purple. See Black Ischia. 



EARLY VIOLET. — Small, roundish. Skin, brownish red, covered 

 with blue bloom. Flesh, red, and well flavoured. August. 



Tree hardy, and an abundant bearer ; well adapted for pots and for 

 forcing, when it bears three crops in one season. Though small, and 

 in the estimation of some an insignificant variety, this is among figs 

 what the Eed Masculine is among apricots, and the Red Nutmeg among 

 peaches — ^nicely flavoured, very early, and remarkably prolific. 



EARLY WHITE {Early White; Small Early White).— ¥rmi, 

 roundish-turbinate, somewhat flattened at the apex. Skin, thin, pale 

 yellowish white. Flesh, white, sweet, but not highly flavoured. August. 



Figue-Poire. See Bordeaux. 



Fleur Rouge. See Brown Turkey. 



Ford's Seedling. See White Marseilles. 



GOURAUD NOIR. — Fruit, about medium size, oblong. Skin, 

 quite black. Flesh, deep red and deUciously flavoured. 



A very excellent fig, which is much grown in Languedoc, and where 

 I have eaten it from the tree in great perfection. 



GRIZZLY BOURJASSOTTE {Bourjassotte Grise; Napolitaine).— 

 Fruit, about medium sized, round, and so much flattened as to be 

 somewhat oblate. Skin, of a chocolate colour, covered with a very 

 thin bloom. Neck, very short. Eye, open. Flesh, of a deep dark 

 blood red colour, with a thick syrupy juice, and very richly flavoured. 



A delicious fig ; ripe in the end of September. 



Gros de Draguignan. See Agen. 



GROSSE MONSTRUEUSE DE LIPARI.— Fruit, very large; 

 three inches wide and nearly as much high ; turbinate and broad 

 and flattened at the apex. Skin, pale chestnut brown, darker on the 

 side exposed to the sun, and marked with darker longitudinal ribs 

 down the sides, and with occasional dark spots, the whole surface 

 covered with a thick bloom. Stalk, short and thick. Eye, large and 

 closed. Flesh, dull red, thick, juicy, and well-flavoured. 



A large and handsome fig of great merit, which I found in an orchard in the 

 department of Bouches de Ehdne, and introduced to the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society. The tree is a good grower and bears abundantly. 



Grosse Verte. See Nebian, 



Hanover. See Brunswick. 



Howick. See Broun Turkey. 



