STRIPED FAMEUSE. A variety has sometimes been propagated and disseminated under the name Fameuse which is recognized as Striped Fameuse. The tree is a thriftier grower in the nursery than the true Fameuse, but the fruit is less desirable, being inferior in color but similar in all other respects to Fameuse. It is mottled or thinly washed with bright red over a pale yellow background, striped and splashed with carmine.

OTHER VARIETIES OF THE FAMEUSE GROUP.

Waugh (44) remarks that one of the striking things about the Fameuse type is that it has the strong tendency to reproduce itself from seed. This has been taken advantage of in the last fifty years, and apples of the Fameuse type have been grown from seed by the hundred and planted in the orchard. This practice has prevailed largely in Quebec in neighborhoods where nurseries were scarce and grafted nursery trees expensive or unknown. He concludes, therefore, that the modern Fameuse apples are most certainly not all from the same original seed, the conspicuous variations among them being thus accounted for at least in part. He further observes that seedlings of the Fameuse often show so much departure from the common characters of Fameuse as to be readily recognized as something different. Such seedlings are generally accepted as new varieties, and in cases where they show conspicuous merit they are separately propagated by grafting, and eventually receive special names of their own. He then lists several named varieties of the Fameuse group, including Bloom, Brilliant, Canada Baldwin, Fameuse Green, Fameuse Noire, Fameuse Sucre, La Victoire, Louise, McIntosh, Hilaire and Shiawassee. The more important of these are described under their respective names in this volume.

— S.A. Beach, The Apples of New York, Vol. 2 (1905)