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col. pi. No. 47. 15. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1852. 16. Elliott, 1854:87. 17. 

 Hovey, Mag. Hort., 20:29. 1854. 18. Hooper, 1857:52. 19. Lucas, 1859:557. 

 20. Warder, 1867:411. 21. Fitz, 1872:166. 22. Downing, 1872:244. 23. 

 Leroy, 1873:65. fig. 24. Barry, 1883:348. 25. Hogg, 1884:8. 26. Lyon, Mich. 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:294. 27. Wickson, 1891:248. 28. Bailey, An. Hort., 

 1892:243. 29. Bredsted, 2:210. 1893. 30. Woolverton, Out. Fr. Stas. An. 

 Rpt., 3:10. 1896. figs. 31. Budd-Hansen, 1903:111. fig. 32. Beach and Clark, 

 N. Y. Sta. Bui, 248:128. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. Almindelig (29). API (i, 23, 25, 29, 30). Api (n, 16, 18, 

 22,31). Api eller (29). Api Fin (23). Api Ordinaire (23). Api Petit (n, 

 12, 20, 22, 25). /4/> T^cw (23). Api Rouge (25). ^4/>y Rouge (23). Car- 

 dinale (23). Christmas Apple (32). Gros Api Rouge (n, 16,22). KLEINER 

 API (19). LADY APPLE (5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24). Lady 

 Apple (4, 10, 23, 25). Lille Api (29). Long Bois (23). PETIT API (6, 7). 

 Petit Api (16, 18). Petit Apis (23). Petit Apt Rose (23). Petit Api Rouge 

 (n, 16, 22, 23, 25). POMME D'API (2, 3). Pomme d'Api (8, 9, 13, 16, 21, 

 25). Pomme d'Api Rouge (n, 16, 22). POMME D'APIS (4). Pomme Rose 

 (n, 16, 18, 22). Poinone d'Apis (5). 



A strikingly beautiful little apple especially suitable for decorative 

 use and for dessert. In New York it is grown to a limited extent 

 only and in restricted localities. It is in some cases grown with 

 profit and often sells at very high prices. It does fairly well on any 

 good apple soil, but a warm, gravelly or sandy loam seems to suit 

 it best, developing to a marked degree the characteristically beauti- 

 ful color and delicate high flavor of this variety, upon which its value 

 chiefly depends. The upright habit of the limbs, together with the 

 smallness of the apples, makes the picking of the fruit unusually 

 expensive. The branches are full of short spurs upon which the 

 fruit is borne in clusters. The f&uit hangs well to the tree. The 

 tree is but a moderate grower and does not come into bearing young, 

 but in favorable locations, after it reaches maturity, it is a reliable 

 cropper, bearing heavy crops biennially or in, rare instances nearly 

 annually. In order to grow Lady most successfully, particular pains 

 must be taken to protect it from the attacks of insects and fungi, 

 particularly from the apple scab fungus, by which it is often seriously 

 damaged. When well grown, the crop is pretty uniform in size and 

 shape and satisfactory in color and quality. It does not always color 

 properly, and is then of little value for anything but cider, being 

 too small either for general market purposes or for culinary use. 

 Properly handled, it may be held in cold storage till summer, but 

 there is little demand for it after the holiday season, and as it keeps 



