io THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



AUGUSTINE. 



REFERENCES, i. Horticulturist, 1848 (cited by 5). 2. Downing, 1857:207. 

 3. Warder, 1867711. 4. Thomas, 1885:502. 5. Ragan, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 

 56:31. 1905. 



SYNONYMS. None. 



A pleasant flavored dessert apple formerly grown to a very limited extent 

 in some portions of the state but now practically unknown. Fruit medium 

 to rather large, roundish conic or slightly inclined to oblong, yellow splashed 

 and striped with red; flesh moderately juicy to rather dry, not crisp, tender, 

 sweet; season August. 



AUTUMN BOUGH. 



REFERENCES, i. London Hort. Soc. Cat., 1831 :No. 36. 2. Parsons, Horti- 

 culturist, i :2og. 1846. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1852. 4. Mag. Hort., 19 :68. 

 1853. 5- Elliott, 1854:66. fig. 6. Downing, 1857:71. 7. Mag. Hort., 25:154. 

 1859. 8. Warder, 1867:712. 9. Thomas, 1875:198. io. Downing, 1881:11 

 index, app. n. Lyon, Midi. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:288. 12. Bailey, An. 

 Hort., 1892 :234. 



SYNONYMS. AUTUMN BOUGH (i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, n, 12). Autumn Bough (9). 

 AUTUMNAL BOUGH (8). AUTUMN SWEET BOUGH (6, 9, io). Autumn Sivect 

 Bough (5). Fall Bough (6, 9). Late Bough (6, 9). Montgomery Sweet 

 (io). Philadelphia Sweet (6, 9). Summer Bell-flower (6). 



This is regarded by many as one of the best sweet apples of its season 

 for dessert use and is esteemed also for culinary purposes. The tree is 

 medium in size, upright or roundish, moderately vigorous to vigorous, 

 healthy, long-lived, comes into bearing fairly young and is reliably pro- 

 ductive. The fruit hangs well to the tree. It is suitable for local market but 

 it does not ship well. So far as we can learn it is not grown commercially 

 but it is occasionally cultivated for home use and is still listed by some 

 nurserymen. 



In 1846 Robert B. Parsons, of Flushing, N. Y., described it as " a very 

 superior fruit, ranking indeed among our best sweet apples, and worthy of 

 extensive cultivation. It is rather large, somewhat of a calville-shape, 

 though with the ribs not quite so prominent as is usual with apples of that 

 class ; oblong, diminishing very much to the eye. Skin smooth, pale yellow, 

 with a few scattered dots. Eye of medium size, and very deeply sunken. 

 Stalk rather slender, set in a deep narrow cavity. Flesh white, very tender, 

 and with a rich and sweet, yet sprightly flavor. Ripens from 25th of Eighth 

 month to the 2oth of Ninth month. The tree is exceedingly productive, and 

 of very vigorous growth" (2). 



AUTUMN STREAKED. 



REFERENCES, i. Gibb, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1887:50. 2. Lyon, U. S. Pom. 

 Bui, 2:39. 1888. 3. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 8:349. 1889. 4. Ib., 13:579. 1894. 



SYNONYMS. AUTUMN STREAKED (i, 2, 3, 4). Herbst Strcfiing (i). Herbst 

 StreMing (2). No. 964 (i). 



