184 The Apples of New York. 



Finger as an erroneous sj'nonyni for Kaighn and Red Lady Finger as a 

 synonym for Red Winter Pearmain. 



Hogg (8) describes a red cider apple under the name Lady's Finger of 

 Hereford and a greenish-yellow culinary apple in season from November to 

 March under the name Lady's Finger of Lancaster. He also gives Lady's 

 Finger of Kent as a synonym for Smart's Prince Arthur, and Lady's Finger 

 as a synonym for White Paradise. 



Thomas (10) gives Lady Finger as a synonym of White Paradise. 



LADY SWEET. 



References, i. Downing. 1845:136. fig. 2. Cole, 1849:132. fig. 3. Down- 

 ing, Horticulturist, 3:578. 1849. 4. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:75. 1851. 5. 

 Hovey, 2:87. 1851. col. pi. and Hg. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1854. 7. Elliott, 

 1854:88. 8. Hovey, Mag. Hart., 21:566. 1855. Hg. 9. Hooper, 1857:52. 10. 

 Warder, 1867:561. fig. 11. Fitz, 1872:166. 12. Downing, 1872:246. fig. 13. 

 Barry, 1883:348. 14. Thomas, 1885:227. fig. 15. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 

 1890:294. 16. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:243. 17. Farrand, Mich. Sta. Bui, 

 205:42. 1903. 18. Budd-Hansen, 1903:112. 19. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. 

 P. I. Bui, 48:46. 1903. 20. Beach and Clark, .V. Y. Sta. Bui, 248:128. 1904. 



Synonyms. Ladies Sweet (ii). Ladies Sweeting (i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 

 8, 9, 10, 14). Lady's Sweet (12, 13). Lady's Szveeting (20). Pommeroy 

 (12, 20). Roa Yon (12). 



This is one of the most desirable of the sweet apples for com- 

 mercial planting. When well grown, the fruit is of good size, fine 

 red color and excellent quality and keeps very late. It has an estab- 

 lished reputation in market and is well known to fruit growers in 

 many parts of the state, and often under the synonym Pommeroy. 

 Doubtless it would be grown more extensively were it not for the 

 fact that at present the market demand for sweet apples is quite 

 limited. It ships well, stores well and usually sells well. It is also 

 a good variety for the home orchard because the tree comes into 

 bearing young, is a regular bearer, yields heavy crops, and the fruit 

 is attractive in color and excellent either for dessert or for culinary 

 uses. When grown as far north as Lake Ontario its season for 

 home use extends from late autumn to late spring. Generally the 

 tree is not a remarkably strong grower and is but moderately long- 

 lived. In some locations it is not quite hardy, and sometimes it is 

 injured by bark-bursting. These deficiencies are in part overcome 

 by top-working the variety upon some hardier and more vigorous 

 sort. The variety is somewhat susceptible to the attacks of the 

 scab fungus and requires thorough treatment to protect it from this 

 disease. It is a reliable cropper, bearing biennially, or in some cases 



