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has been taken advantage of, even within the last fifty, years, and 

 ''Fameuse" apples have been grown from seed by the hundred 

 and planted into orchards. This practice prevailed largely in 

 Quebec, in neighborhoods where nurseries were scarce and 

 grafted nursery trees expensive or unknown. 



We may conclude therefore, that the modern Fameuse apples 

 are most certainly not all from the same original stock. The 

 conspicuous variations among them are thus to be accounted for, 

 a"t least in part. It is a comj.Tion saying- that there are *'two kinds 

 of Fameuse." It would probably be more nearly the strict truth 

 to say that there are two hundred kinds of Fameuse. 



Aside from the variations which have come about through seed 

 propagation, there are others doubtless due to bud variation. 

 On the same tree one may often find a branch bearing dark red 

 apples and another bearing light striped fruit. It is a question 

 just how closely the fruit grower can reproduce these various 

 colors by grafting ; but the probability of their practical duplica- 

 tion is so great that the best propagators habitually select 

 Fameuse cions from trees which bear abundantly and regularly 

 and which give the desirable large dark red fruit. 



The most conspicuous differences between Fameuse apples are 

 in the coloring of the fruit ; and the commonest distinction is that 

 between "the red variety" and "the striped variety." In Quebec, 

 where Fameuse is best known, these are commonly known as 

 Farneiise noire, (sometimes as Pameuse rouge) and Fameuse 

 barre. One particular stock of Fameuse noire is propagated at 

 Abbotsford, Que., and in other neighboring townships. 



Other varieties of the same type. — Seedlings of Fameuse, how- 

 ever, often show so much departure from the characters of the 

 common Fameuse as to be readily recognized as something dif- 

 ferent. Such seedlings are generally accepted as new varieties, 

 and, in cases where they show conspicuous merit, they are sepa- 

 rately propagated by grafting, and eventually receive special 

 names of their own. In this way originated Mcintosh, Shia- 

 wassee, and the other varieties named and described below. 



Besides the varieties of the Fameuse group named and 

 described herewith, there have been many other seedlings which 

 have had more or less of local reputation, and w(hich are men- 

 tioned from time to time in pomological literature. St. Hilaire, 



