The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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French Crab – Fustic-Tree

French Crab

Kitchen. Fruit large, pale green, firm, acid. An excellent sort, and the longest keeper.

Florence

Fruit large, pale amber, mottled with red; flesh firm, juicy, and sweet. This variety requires a well with west or southwest aspect.

Frogmore Early

Of a deep red next the sun; juicy and rich. As early as May Duke.

Gascoigne's Heart, or Hertfordshire Bleeding Heart. One of the finest and most popular cherries.

Ficus

(the old Latin name, akin to the Greek sfukon or sukon, a fig; the

Fertility

(Rivers'). Fruit medium, obovate, greenish-russet, flushed; flesh firm, moderately juicy. October. A fine Pear for market.

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Fruit clear greenish-yellow, translucent, small, ovate; flesh very tender, melting, juicy, and sweet, with a strong aroma of ripe strawberries; bunches small, tapering. An early Muscat Grape.

Foster's Seedling

Fruit clear greenish-yellow, medium, oval flesh tender and melting, sweet and pleasant; bunches medium, shouldered, well set. An early Sweetwater Grape.

Frankenthal

See Black Hamburgh.

Forsythia

A couple of species, natives of China and Japan, compose this genus.

F. intermedia (intermediate). A hybrid between F. suspensa and F. viridissima.

Fustic-Tree

See Chlorophora tinctoria.

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