S2 STAT?: POJMOI.OGICAI, S0CIE:TY. 



rence is plainly of the St. Lawrence type. Burlington, or Bur- 

 lington Pippin, thought to have originated at Burlington, Vt., 

 seems to me to belong to the St. Lawrence type. Mr. W. A. 

 Taylor suggests that perhaps the variety Mook, propagated by 

 Mr. A. B. Greenlee, New Lebanon, Pa., is of this type. 



The Jonathan type seems also to be somewhat closely related 

 to the Fameuse. 



Pojiiological status. — The Fam.euse presents an important 

 commercial type. Geographically it is central at the island of 

 Montreal, where, it is often said — by Montreal people — that the 

 best Fameuse in the world are grown. In Vermont we think 

 that Isle LaMotte can raise the best Fameuse ever seen. 

 Throughout the valley of the St. Lawrence, from Valleyfield 

 almost to the city of Quebec, this is unquestionably the predom- 

 inating market apple. In the neighboring regions of Ontario, 

 Northern New York and New England, it is one of the first 

 market apples, and second only to such sorts as Northern Spy, 

 Rhode Island Greening and Baldwin where these latter can be 

 successfully grown. Moreover, such varieties as Mcintosh, 

 Shiawassee and Scarlet Pippin promise to extend the geograph- 

 ical and commercial range of the Fameuse type into many sec- 

 tions where Fameuse itself has not take conspicuous lead. 



The pomological characteristics of the type in general are 

 finely colored fruit, with rather tender skin and flesh, the latter 

 extremely white and usually strongly marked with red, very 

 much subject to scab, ripening in late fall and early winter. The 

 trees are usually fine, clean, rather spreading growers, come into 

 fruitage early, and bear heavily and regularly. Crops are 

 secured usually in alternate years, but this is simply because the 

 trees are allov/ed to overbear in years of plenty, Proper thin- 

 ning of the fruit, combined with proper feeding, will make an 

 annual bearer of almost any tree of Fameuse or other varieties 

 of this group. 



TII. DESCRIPTIONS AND NOTES OF VARIETIES. 



The following varieties have been critically examined and are 

 thought to conform closely enough to the Fameuse type to be 

 properly admitted to this bulletin. The descriptions are all orig- 

 inal, and are made from the specimens. These descriptions have 

 been collecting in the station files for several years, and we have 



