Würtemberg, Germany, 1830. Fruit medium, oval-obtuse, variable, bossed, grass-green changing to golden-yellow, blushed with reddish-brown; flesh whitish, breaking, fairly soft, very aromatic, acidulous, sweet; good; Sept.

Frankfurter Birne. 1. Dochnahl Führ. Obstkunde 2:145. 1856.

Baden, Germany, 1847. Fruit large, variable in form, often oblique, dirty yellow, brilliant red on the sun-touched side; flesh breaking, coarse-grained, very sweet and juicy; good; Sept.

Frau Louise Goethe. 1. Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 25:132. 1899.

Raised from a seed of Bergamotte Espéren, in the Horticultural School of Geisenheim in 1882. Fruit medium, Bergamot-shaped; skin thick, coarse, dark green, covered with fine warts, becoming a clouded yellow when ripe, with russety patches; flesh clouded yellow, sometimes salmon colored, juicy, sweet, aromatic, with an aroma reminiscent of the orange; winter.

Frederic Leclerc. 1. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:198, fig. 1869. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 583. 1884.

Raised in 1846 at Ghent, Bel., by Louis Berckmans. Fruit below medium, short-pyriform-obtuse, one side always less curved than the other, greenish-yellow, dotted, striped, veined and stained with fawn; flesh whitish, fine, semi-melting, slightly gritty; juice sugary, rich; second and sometimes first when its juice is abundant; Dec. and Jan.

Frédéric de Wurtemberg. 1. Kenrick Am. Orch. 173. 1832. 2. Leroy Dict. Pom. 2:199, fig. 1869.

Médaille d’Or. 3. Ann. Pom. Belge 1:91, fig. 1853.

Herbstsylvester. 4. Lauche Deut. Pom. 2:No. 82, No. 82. 1883.