Faust
Apple
Origin/History
Origin North Carolina. Warder (1867) notes the variety was received from S. W. Westbrooke, of Greensboro, N.C., and describes it as "this very nice apple" that "deserves the commendation of its southern admirers." Downing lists the alternate names Faust's Winter and Foust.
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size and Form: Medium. Warder describes the fruit as regular and globular-oblate; Downing describes it as roundish.
Stem: Warder gives the stem as medium to long; Downing describes it as short and stout. These accounts conflict.
Cavity: Wide, green (Warder).
Calyx/Eye: Warder describes the eye as small and closed. Downing describes the calyx as nearly closed.
Basin: Shallow, folded (Warder).
Skin: Surface smooth (Warder). Ground color yellow. Downing notes the skin is sometimes faintly shaded with red on the sun-exposed side. Warder describes the surface as bearing a white bloom with sunken white dots; Downing describes the dots as light, and the fruit as thinly sprinkled with them.
Flesh and Flavor: Warder gives the flesh as yellow and fine grained, flavor sub-acid, aromatic, and of first quality for table or dessert. Downing describes the flesh as whitish yellow and moderately juicy, with a pleasant subacid flavor, and rates it Good, almost Very Good. Thomas concurs: sub-acid, good.
Core and Seeds: Core wide, closed, scarcely meeting the eye. Seeds angular (Warder).
Season
November to December. Warder: November or later. Downing: November, December. Thomas: November.
Uses
Table and dessert (Warder).
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 3 period pomological works
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— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)Faust.
This very nice apple, received from S. W. Westbrooke, of Greensboro, N. C., deserves the commendation of its southern admirers.
Fruit regular, globular-oblate, of medium size; Surface smooth, yellow, with a white bloom and sunken white dots.
Basin shallow, folded; Eye small, closed.
Cavity wide, green; Stem medium, to long.
Core wide, closed, scarcely meeting the eye; Seeds angular; Flesh yellow, fine grained; Flavor sub-acid, aromatic, and first quality for table or dessert use, in November or later.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Faust Faust's Winter. Foust. Origin, North Carolina. Fruit medium, roundish, yellow, sometimes faintly shaded with red in the sun, and thinly sprinkled with light dots. Stalk short, stout. Calyx nearly closed. Flesh whitish yellow, moderately juicy, pleasant subacid. Good, almost very good. November, December.
— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)Faust. Medium; sub-acid, good. November. N. C.