STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 8l 



or Cahane du Chien, originated at St. Hilaire, Que., and is fig- 

 ured and described by Downing. So far as I can learn from 

 careful inquiry in the neighborhood of its nativity, it is not now 

 propagated. Giieule noire was another Fameuse seedUng orig- 

 inating at St. Hilaire about fifty years ago, but which appears 

 now to have been lost. It is described as "larger than Fameuse, 

 and .very deeply colored."* ''Sweet Fameuse No. i, of St. 

 Hilaire" is mentioned in the same reports. Elzear is another of 

 the unpropagated Fameuse seedlings. f In 1883 a committee of 

 the Montreal horticultural society made a search through the 

 province for seedling apples of merit. A considerable number 

 wfere collected, exhibited before the society, and described. J 

 None was named at the time, however. 



Other varieties which m.ay belong with this type, but which I 

 have not had the opportunity to examine, are as follows : Bril- 

 liant, of Mr. C. G. Patten, Charles City, Iowa ; and Bloom, of 

 Mr. E. W. Merritt, Houlton, Me. Certain other varieties, said 

 to be seedlings of Fameuse, have been examined and discarded 

 from the group. 



Finally it should be said that a somewhat liberal policy has 

 been followed in admitting varieties to this group, particularly 

 in the case of Canada Baldwin. This apple differs considerably 

 from the ideal type in points which may easily be considered 

 generically essential, 3'et it seems to me to be nearly enough like 

 Fameuse to have been sprung from it, and to have enough of the 

 Fameuse characters to make them classifiable with this type. 

 Scott, or Scott's Winter, is doubtfully excluded. The fruit from 

 different sources, recently examined, indicates its close affinity 

 with Fameuse ; but there is some doubt about the authenticity of 

 these sp-^cimens. 



The St. Lawrence type. — St. Lawrence is thought to be a seed- 

 ling of Fameuse. One may easily believe that it is. It is 

 enough like Fameuse to be of that parentage, but its characters 

 are sufficiently different so that one would hardly think of asso- 

 ciating the two for purposes of classification. St. Lawrence, 

 therefore, presents a type separate from Fameuse (in the natural 

 historv sense), but closelv related thereto. Winter St. Law- 



* Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt. 12, p. 90 (1886). 

 tSee Mont. Hort. goc. Rpt. 13, p. 66 (1887). 

 I See Mont. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 9, p. 121-123 (1883). 



