1914 FRUITS OF ONTARIO. 53 



LADY. 



A beautiful little apple for the amateur's collection, and very highly valued where 

 known for a dessert apple, having a pleasant flavor and great beauty. In Europe the 

 apple is known as Api, but in America it has become known as the Lady apple. 



ORIGIN: France. 



TREE: upright habit and bears fruit in clusters, vigorous, only fairly hardy and pro- 

 ductive. 



FRUIT: very small, flat oblate. Color green, turning to yellow, half covered with 

 a rich red cheek, and many tiny dots which are more numerous towards the apex. Stem 

 slender, half an inch long, set in a deep regular cavity. Calyx closed in a small wrinkled 

 basin. 



FLESH: greenish white; texture fine grained, crisp and juicy; flavor pleasant. 



QUALITY: dessert, very good; cooking too* small to be of any value. 



SEASON: December to May. 



ADAPTATION: successfully grown as far north as the Bay of QUinte station. 



LA VICTOIRE. 



This variety has not, so far, proved very productive, but is a handsome apple, and 

 on account of its season and hardiness will probably prove useful in the north. 



ORIGIN: near Grenville, Que. Probably a seedling of Fameuse. 



TREE: hardy and a strong moderately spreading grower. 



FRUIT: above medium size, oblate, regular; skin greenish yellow, almost covered with 

 crimson; dots fairly numerous, gray, distinct; cavity of medium depth and width, 

 slightly russeted; stem short and stout; basin of medium depth and width, almost 

 smooth; calyx open and medium in size. 



FLESH: white, tinged with red, rather coarse, moderately juicy, mildly subacid, with 

 a pleasant flavor; core small. 



QUALITY: good. 



SEASON: Midwinter. (Macoun.) 



LIVLAND RASPBERRY (Lowland Raspberry). 



A handsome hardy summer apple of very good dessert quality, one of the best sum- 

 mer apples for home use, but drops rather badly and ripens unevenly. 



ORIGIN: Russia. 



TREE: moderately upright, vigorous, moderately productive. 



FRUIT: medium to large, roundish to oblate, conic, angular, color pale yellow, more 

 or less marked, splashed and washed with bright red with a few pale yellow indistinct 

 dots ; stem short to medium, moderately stout in a narrow cavity of medium depth ; basin 

 shallow, narrow, slightly wrinkled. 



FLESH: white tinged with red. crisp, tender, juicy, subacid with a good flavor. 



QUALITY: dessert very good. 



SEASON: middle to last of August. 



ADAPTATION: quite hardy, having been fruited in Southern Manitoba. (Macoun.) 



