68 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit hardly averages medium but sometimes is above medium size. Form 

 roundish inclined to conic, sometimes a little oblate, regular, uniform, sym- 

 metrical. Stem medium to short but sometimes long, rather slender. Cavity 

 acute to somewhat acuminate, moderately deep to deep, rather wide, often 

 gently furrowed, sometimes partly russeted but generally smooth and red 

 or greenish. Calyx rather small, usually closed. Basin medium in width and 

 depth, rather small, somewhat abrupt, obscurely furrowed or wrinkled, often 

 having mammiform protuberances. 



Skin thin, tender, smooth, light bright red deepening to almost purplish 

 black in highly colored specimens with a somewhat striped appearance 

 toward the apex. In less highly colored specimens the striped effect is more 

 noticeable. Dots few, scattering, light. 



Calyx 1 tube narrow, funnel-form. Stamens median or somewhat basal. 



Core medium to rather small, axile ; cells closed ; core lines clasping. 

 Carpels symmetrical, roundish or inclined to elliptical, somewhat emargi- 

 nate, mucronate. Seeds dark, long, rather narrow, acute to acuminate. 



Flesh white, sometimes streaked or stained with red, very tender, juicy, 

 subacid becoming very mild subacid or sweetish, aromatic, very good for 

 dessert. 



Season October to midwinter. 



STRIPED FAMEUSE. A variety has sometimes been propagated 

 and disseminated under the name Fameuse which is recognized as 

 Striped Fameuse. The tree is a thriftier grower in the nursery 

 than the true Fameuse, but the fruit is less desirable, being inferior 

 in color but similar in all other respects to Fameuse. It is mottled 

 or thinly washed with bright red over a pale yellow background, 

 striped and splashed with carmine. 



OTHER VARIETIES OF THE FAMEUSE GROUP. 

 Waugh (44) remarks that one of the striking things about the 

 Fameuse type is that it has the strong tendency to reproduce itsel'f 

 from seed. This has been taken advantage of in the last fifty years, 

 and apples of the Fameuse type have been grown from seed by 

 the hundred and planted in the orchard. This practice has pre- 

 vailed largely in Quebec in neighborhoods where nurseries were 

 scarce and grafted nursery trees expensive or unknown. He. con- 

 cludes, therefore, that the modern Fameuse apples are most cer- 

 tainly not all from the same original seed, the conspicuous varia- 

 tions among them being thus accounted for at least in part. He 

 further observes that seedlings of the Fameuse often show so much 



