VOL. L] APRIL, 1878. [No. 4. 



SOME EECENTLY DESCEIBED HARDY APPLES. 



We are under obligations to Mr. T. C. Robinson, of Owen Sound, 

 for calling our attention to an article written for the Rural New 

 Yorker, by Dr. S. H. Hoskins, in wliicli he describes some apples 

 recently discovered through the exertions of the Montreal Horticultural 

 Society, and which are as yet mostly unpropagated, although many of 

 them have l>een long kn-owii among the French population of the Pro- 

 vince of Quebec. Several of these apples are regarded by Dr. Hoskins 

 as belonging to the Fameuse or Snow Apple class, and seem to be de- 

 scendants of that well known and highly esteemed apple. The de- 

 scriptions given are those of Dr. Hoskins as they appear in the extract 

 sent by Mr. Robinson. 



Fameuse Sucre. — This is an inviting blackish-red little dessert 

 apple, it is of the same size as Fameuse, but much darker in color than 

 the reddest of that very variable variety in respect of color; form 

 roundish, or slightly oblate; flesh white, deeply stained with red; and 

 very crisp, yet tender, at once mildly sub-acid and sugary, with an 

 aroma of the most peculiar, penetrating, and enduring quality, more 

 like that of some spicy foreign grape than of an apple. I am bold to 

 say that no known apple equals Fameuse Sucre in delicacy and 

 piquancy of taste. It is a true revelation, in apples, of a capacity for 

 flavor which we might look for in some rare tropical fruit, than in an 

 apple from the extreme north. It is not a sweet apple, it is a deliciously 

 sugared apple, as its name indicates, with a distinct aromatic acidity 

 beneath the saccharine, like, yet unlike, the highest flavored strawberry. 

 The season of Fameuse Sucree is from the middle of September until 

 the last of October, or later. The tree seems as hardy as Fameuse ; it 

 is upright in growth, it spreads but gradually, its branches bear the 

 bright gloss of health. Like Fameuse, it bears light and heavy crops 

 alternately; those who have it say it equals Fameuse in yield. 



