Fameuse apple

Fameuse apple identification images

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USDA identification images for Fameuse

The identification paintings in the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection span the years 1886 to 1942.

Citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705.

Visitor reviews

• 13 Oct 2024 

  What happen to the seedless & core-less variety discovered in 1922 ? Referred to as an Abbotsford of the Fameuse apple
• 25 Oct 2015  MASSACHUSETTS, United States

  Very cold hardy. Ideal for surviving Northern New England winters and late spring frosts. Snappy, snow white flesh makes it more attractive to my eyes and tongue than Macintosh. - Carter Wilkie, Boston
• 28 Mar 2015  VIC, Australia

  Bears very Biennially at Mt Macedon, Victoria, Australia. Very heavy crops some years. As the description says, colour varies a lot within the tree. Great for kids, my daughter takes bucket loads to her school and they are pounced on. I find it a little bland tasting, but the red skin and white flesh, with small size make it very attractive to kids.
• 02 Dec 2014  WEST BARNSTABLE, United States

  Fameuse is not the best apple that I've ever had, but certainly good and worth trying. The flavor is similar to a Macintosh (no surprise), but not quite as intense. I've only had a few, and of uncertain age, but the texture seems a bit more solid than a Mac.
• 29 Sep 2014  MI, United States

  Magicland Farms in Newaygo grows this variety. I was surprised to find out that my mom's father (who passed when she was very young) used to love this variety of apple - it was his favorite. She has never seen them since. These are now my favorite apple (I'm normally a Granny Smith lover) and I feel like I know my grandfather a little bit because of these special little fruits!
• 01 Oct 2013  MA, United States

  Picked several of these apples at a local MA orchard (from their "antique orchard) to try. Starts off sweet, ends with a nice tartness. Good crispness to the apple, nice juiciness. A new favorite - I'll be going back to that orchard to pick a few more.
• 12 Sep 2013  ME, United States

  My favorite apple that is juicy,crisp and a bit spicy. Our old tree has given us apples yearly. They keep better than Mac's in our cellar. My favorite fresh and cooking apple even though they are smaller than a Mac
• 12 Sep 2013  ME, United States

  My favorite apple that is juicy,crisp and a bit spicy. Our old tree has given us apples yearly. They keep better than Mac's in our cellar. My favorite fresh and cooking apple even though they are smaller than a Mac
• 12 Sep 2013  ME, United States

  My favorite apple that is juicy,crisp and a bit spicy. Our old tree has given us apples yearly. They keep better than Mac's in our cellar. My favorite fresh and cooking apple even though they are smaller than a Mac
• 07 Nov 2012  TX, United States

  Just ate one sent specially from an organic farm in Kansas. Beautiful little apple--tiny, bright red, and very round. Fairy apple! Quite aromatic. Sweet, with a bit of almond, and I do see how some of its qualities may have come down to McIntosh.
• 21 Jan 2012  NORTHERN COLORADO, United States

  The great American poet Robert Frost had an orchard on his southern Vermont property. An article is published in the Winter 2012 issue of Vermont's Local Banquet magazine detailing its preservation, including a heritage Snow apple tree that Frost himself may have planted. The wonderful story by Ellen Williams begins: "At the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in South Shaftsbury—his Vermont residence from 1920 to 1928—an ancient and magisterially gnarled Snow apple tree presides over the grounds." The web link to the magazine story below shows an image of this tree. And further it reveals: "...Today, 90-odd years after the soil was first tamped down around its roots, the heritage tree, as the Snow apple is known, remains vigorous enough to produce a bountiful harvest of distinctively striped and tasty white-fleshed fruit every year around Labor Day." There is no mention of the name Fameuse but all other details corroborate with the posts here on orangepippin that it is synonymous with Snow. http://www.localbanquet.com/issues/years/2012/Winter12/frost_w12.html
• 17 Oct 2011  OR, United States

  My mother, age 95, was raised on a dairy farm/apple orchard in Niagara County, NY. She has always said that her favorite apple was the Snow Apple. I found an orchard here in Oregon that has these apples and am going to take her there today. Am excited about getting to taste this treat!
• 05 Sep 2010  QUEBEC, Canada

  (JULES N. PAQUET. 1889) What about the quality of the famous Apple? I like the Early Astracan, I taste the Duchess beautiful, I enjoy the Soft Peach, I admire the huge Alexander. But I remain without expressions when I eat a Fameuse apple in our happy winter evenings. Is there a most succulent, most tasty; with a richer taste and more flavourful? In one word, is the famous, no species will equal it in quality, argue its glorious title; Admittedly it has certainly not stolen it's picturesque name,
• 05 Sep 2010  QUEBEC, Canada

  I am French Canadian and cant agree more with what these poeple said, how ever delisious any othere apple can be it just does'nt bett the Fameuse, "I was a pretty young child and I haven't been able to forget about them since." ,"The flesh is very very white, yet with red stains in it. A really pleasant little treat" "close to eighty years old and has a graft on it that gives delicious snow apples." They are now unavailable here also in garden stores (after few attempts, they seem to be hard to graff ) Eric R
• 07 Aug 2010  MASSACHUSETTS, United States

  Occasionally we get this kind here in New England: some years ago French Canadians moved south into Maine and Vermont to work in factories and they brought this with them. Very hardy tree. Very hardy indeed: last winter around Christmas the whole of New England got a good dumping of snow....and by all accounts, the Fameuse trees are still juuuust fine!!
• 22 Jun 2010  BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada

  I have an old apple tree outside my house that is close to eighty years old and has a graft on it that gives delicious snow apples. I have been thinking it is probably about time I started a new tree but am finding it difficult to find any snow apples anywhere and I have had no luck propagating from the tree.
• 06 Nov 2009  TOLEDO, OH, United States

  I last ate a snow apple when I was a pretty young child and I haven't been able to forget about them since. I also haven't been able to find them since. Please, please, please, does anyone know any orchards in the NW Ohio SE MI area that grows them?
• 26 Oct 2009  MI, United States

  This is an apple fond in my memories. It has a texture like a MacIntosh and a flavor that is similar, yet a bit spicier. It has a wonderful scent and the apples are rather on the small side. The flesh is very very white, yet with red stains in it. A really pleasant little treat.

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Where to buy fresh fruit

The following orchards grow Fameuse:

United States

• Colorado

  • Masonville Orchard, Fort Collins

• Connecticut

  • Seek No Further Orchard, Hebron

• Idaho

  • BYU-Idaho Apple Orchard Museum, Rexburg

• Indiana

  • Radke's Orchards, Michigan City

• Iowa

  • Deal's Orchard, Jefferson
  • Gravert's Apple Basket Orchard, Sabula
  • Wilson's Orchard, Iowa City

• Kansas

  • Fieldstone Enterprise, Overbrook

• Massachusetts

  • Red Apple Farm, Phillipston

• Michigan

  • Alber's Orchard & Cider Mill, Manchester
  • Jacques Orchard, Hemlock
  • KlineKrest USDA Certified Organic Produce Farm, Lyons
  • Knaebe's "Mmmunchy Krunchy" Apple Farm Cider Mill, Rogers City
  • Koan's Orchard, Flushing
  • Phillips Orchards & Cider Mill, Saint Johns
  • Tompkins' Orchard and Country Store, Vassar

• New Hampshire

  • Alyson's Apple Orchard, Walpole
  • Apple Annie, Brentwood
  • Gould Hill Farm, Contoocook
  • Lull Farm, Hollis

• New York

  • Windy Hill Orchard & Farm Market, Cassville

• Ohio

  • Reaver Farms Orchard, South Charleston

• Oregon

  • Territorial Road Orchard, Corvallis

• Washington

  • Skipley Farm, Snohomish        *** Feature Orchard ***

• Wisconsin

  • Door Creek Orchard, Cottage Grove
  • Orchard Store at Old Homestead, Franksville

Canada

• British Columbia

  • Salt Spring Apple Company, Salt Spring Island
  • Spencer Hill Orchard, Grand Forks

• Ontario

  • Moore Orchards, Cobourg
  • Rural Route Orchard, Halton Hills

Australia

• Victoria

  • Heritage Fruits Society, Fairfield
  • Petty's Orchard, Templestowe