British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great BritainHogg, Robert
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British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain
Hogg, Robert
Apples
This is an old Devonshire apple, and no doubt the _Sweet Rawling_
referred to in a communication to one of Bradley’s “Monthly Treatises,”
from which the following is an extract. “We have an apple in this
country called a Rawling, of which there is a sweet and a sour; the
sour when ripe (which is very early) is a very fair large fruit, and
of a pleasant taste, inclined to a golden color, full of narrow red
streaks; the Sweet Rawling, has the same colours but not quite so
large, and if boiled grows hard; whereas the sour becomes soft. Now
what I have to inform you of is, _viz._: I have a tree which bears both
sorts in one apple; one side of the apple is altogether sweet, the
other side sour; one side bigger than the other; and when boiled the
one side is soft, the other hard, as all sweet and sour apples are.”
290. REINETTE DE BREDA.--Diel.
IDENTIFICATION.--Diel Kernobst. i. 110. Sickler Obstgärt. ix. 212.
FIGURE.--Sickler Obstgärt. ix. t. 9.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two and
a quarter high; roundish and compressed. Skin, at first pale yellow,
but changing as it ripens to fine deep golden yellow, and covered with
numerous russety streaks and dots, and with a tinge of red and fine
crimson dots, on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, set in a wide and
plaited basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a russety cavity.
Flesh, yellowish-white, firm and crisp, but tender and juicy, with a
rich vinous and aromatic flavor.
A dessert apple of first-rate quality; in use from December to March.
This is the Reinette d’Aizerna of the Horticultural Society’s
Catalogue, and may be the Nelguin of Knoop, but it is certainly not the
Reinette d’Aizema of Knoop.
291. REINETTE BLANCHE D’ESPAGNE.--Hort.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc, Cat. ed. 3, n. 636. Diel Kernobst. v. B.
80. Mayer Pom. Franc. Down. Fr. Amer. 130.
SYNONYMES.--Reinette d’Espagne, _Bret. Ecole_, ii. 477. Reinette
Tendre. Blanc d’Espagne, _Bon. Jard._ 1843, 514. D’Espagne, _acc.
Hort. Soc. Cat._ De Rateau, _acc. Pom. Mag._ Concombre Ancien, _Ibid._
Fall Pippin, _Rog. Fr. Cult._ 95. Cobbett’s Fall Pippin, _acc. Hort.
Soc. Cat._ Large Fall Pippin, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 1, 315 Camuesar,
_in Spain_. White Spanish Reinette, _Pom. Mag._ _Lind Guide_, 83.
FIGURE.--Pom. Mag. t. 110.
Fruit, very large, three inches and a half wide, and three inches and
three quarters high; oblato-oblong, angular on the sides and uneven at
the crown, where it is nearly as broad as at the base. Skin, smooth
and unctuous to the feel, yellowish-green in the shade, but orange
tinged with brownish-red next the sun, and strewed with dark dots.
Eye, large and open, set in a deep, angular, and irregular basin.
Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a narrow, and even cavity. Flesh,
yellowish-white, tender, juicy and sugary.
An apple of first-rate quality, suitable for the dessert, but
particularly so for all culinary purposes. It is in use from December
to April.
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