36 WESTERN FRUIT BOOK. 



Fall Wine. Color, rich red, green at stem ; form, 

 rounded, flattened ; size, 2 ; use, fine table ; quality, 2 j 

 season, September to October. 



Eem ARKS. —This is distinct from the Wine Apple. 



Father Abraham, from St. Louis. 



Eemarks. — " Wood-thrifty, but thorny. Fruit, good ; 

 form, conical ; color, j^ellow, with a red side ; flavor, high ; 

 a good keeper." Fruifs of Missouri, by Thomas Allen, of 

 St. Louis. " A fine table apple. Little known." — Trans. 

 Ohio Pom. Society. Exhibited at Cincinnati, at the Horti- 

 cultural Society Fair in 1843. It was then and there 

 regarded valuable. It is not a great bearer, but regular. 

 0£ fenoidlet flavor, which becomes rather tiresome, though 

 agreeable at first. 



Fameuse, or Pontine de Nelge, or Snoic Apple. Color, 

 crimson red, with a greenish yellow ; form, round ; size, 

 2 ; use, table and kitchen ; quality, 2 ; season, September 

 and October to December. 



Eemarks. — Of uncommon beauty. Flesh, snowy white, 

 tender and delicious. Succeeds best in the North. A 

 most delicate Canadian or IS'orthern Winter fruit, but 

 with us a Fall apple, very prolific, beautiful, delicate flesh, 

 juicy. Of no decided flavor ; still less when cooked, but 

 cooks well. 



Father Apple. Size, 2; use, kitchen. 



Eemarks. — From West Bloomfield, Ontario county, 

 !N"ew York. Not yet tested in this locality. J. E. Watts, 

 Esq., of Eochester, says the Father Apple is worth its 

 weight in gold. It makes a fine sauce without sugar, and 

 cooks well. 



Father Abraham. Color, red, little yellow, spots and 



