Felicie. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 6:117, 118 fig. 1879.
Charles Buisson, Tronche, Isère, 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 small, ovoid, free; ripens the last of September.
Felt Rareripe. 1. 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. 1. Fla. Sta. Rpt. 8:89. 1896. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 1897. 3. Fla. Sta. Bul. 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, dull yellow, well covered with dull red; flesh firm, meaty, white, streaked with red; flavor insipid, poor; stone clinging, oval, plump, short; season early in July.
Fetters. 1. Gard. Mon. 16:315. 1874.
John Fetters, Lancaster, Ohio, raised this white-fleshed freestone from a pit of Lemon Cling.
Fine Jaboulay. 1. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 395. 1889. 2. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 99 fig. 1906.
Thought to have originated with Armand Jaboulay, Oullins, Rhône, France. Leaves with reniform glands; flowers of medium size; fruit large, roundish, 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.