Fameuse
![Fameuse](https://cultivardb.s3.amazonaws.com/media/images/Fameuse.width-400.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJIA44AQZQ34ONVLA&Signature=dSKQSpucIviyCRD8ICIrbkqe12A%3D&Expires=1725767418)
- Description
- In the Champlain district and in portions of the St. Lawrence valley it is one of the most important varieties found in commercial orchards. Generally speaking, it grows to a higher degree of perfection in those districts than it does in other apple-growing regions of New York. In the more southern sections of the state it appears to succeed best in the high elevations and on light well drained soil with clay subsoil. A variety has sometimes been propagated and disseminated under the name Fameuse which is recognized as Striped Fameuse, but this fruit is less desirable than Fameuse
- Flesh quality
- very tender, juicy, subacid becoming very mild subacid or sweetish, aromatic
- Flesh color
- red striped, red blushed, white
- Skin quality
- thin, tender, smooth
- Skin color
- purple-black, red
- Sizes
- medium, above medium
- Shape
- round, oblate, uniform, symmetrical, regular, conical
- Keeping quality
- The fruit is often badly injured by the apple-scab fungus, but this may readily be controlled by proper preventive treatment. It keeps well in cold storage.
- General quality
- Fameuse is one of the most desirable dessert apples of its season. It is very beautiful in appearance and the flesh is white, tender and excellent in flavor and quality for dessert. It is decidedly inferior to other varieties of its season for culinary purposes.
- Uses
- market, dessert
- Eating season starts in
- October
- Eating season ends in
- February
- Also known as
- Chimney Apple
- De Neige
- du Marechal
- Fameuse
- La Belle Fameuse
- La Fameuse
- Neige
- Neige-Framboise de Gielen
- Pomme de Neige
- Pomme de Niège
- Pomme Fameuse
- Pomme de Fameuse
- Sanguineus
- Snow
-
Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 65.