388 THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
spots, large and numerous; flesh yellowish, fine, melting, with abundant sugary juice, vinous, 
sprightly and musky; good; Oct. 
Franc-Réal. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:180. 1768. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:1094, 
fig. 1869. 
Franc Réal 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. 1. 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. 1. 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. 1. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 2:210, Pl. XLVII, fig. 2. 1768. 2. Hogg 
Fruit Man, 582. 1884. : 
Frangipane. 3. Leroy Dict. 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 
Novy. 
Francis. 1. 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 Doyenné; first; Nov. 
Francis Dana. 1. 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. 1. Guide Prat.92. 1895. 
Fruit very large, long-turbinate, dark yellow; flesh fine, white, melting, juicy, sugary, 
acid; Oct. 
Frangipane d’Hiver. 1. Mas Pom. Gen. 7:105, fig. 533. 188r. 
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. 
