Fruit, medium sized, or rather below medium size; roundish and flattened, almost oblate, regularly formed, and without angles. Skin, smooth and delicate, pale greenish-yellow, with a few broken streaks of pale red, intermixed with crimson, on the side exposed to the sun, and strewed with minute dark colored dots. Eye, partially closed, set in a shallow and slightly plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, very slender, inserted in a round, deep, smooth, and funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white tinged with green, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a sweet and pleasant flavor. A very good, but not first-rate, dessert apple; it is in use from November to February. This does not appear to be the “Rose Apple of China” of Coxe, which he imported from England, and which he says is a large oblong fruit with a short thick stalk. 304. ROSEMARY RUSSET.--Ronalds. IDENTIFICATION AND FIGURE.--Ron. Pyr. Mal. 31, pl. xvi. f. 1. [Illustration] Fruit, below medium size; ovate, broadest at the base and narrowing obtusely towards the apex, a good deal of the shape of a Scarlet Nonpareil. Skin, yellow, tinged with green on the shaded side; but flushed with faint red on the side exposed to the sun, and covered with thin pale brown russet, particularly round the eye and the stalk. Eye, small and open, with erect segments, set in a narrow, round, and even basin. Stalk, very long, inserted in a round and wide cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, tender, very juicy, brisk, and sugary, and charged with a peculiarly rich and highly aromatic flavor. A most delicious and valuable dessert apple of the very first quality; it is in use from December till February. 305. ROSS NONPAREIL.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Trans. vol. iii. p. 454. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 480. Lind. Guide, 96. Down. Fr. Amer. 95. FIGURES.--Pom. Mag. t. 90. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xxxiv. f. 7. Fruit, medium sized, two inches high, and two inches and a half broad; roundish, even, and regularly formed, narrowing a little towards the eye. Skin, entirely covered with thin russet, and faintly tinged with red on the side next the sun. Eye, small and open, set in a shallow and even basin. Stalk, an inch long, slender, inserted half its length in a round and even cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, brisk and sugary, charged with a rich and aromatic flavor, which partakes very much of that of the varieties known by the name of Fenouillet, or Fennel-flavored apples. This is one of the best dessert apples; it is in use from November to February. The tree is an excellent bearer, hardy, and a free grower, and succeeds well on almost any description of soil. This variety is of Irish origin. 306. ROUND WINTER NONESUCH.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 491.