Fruit, medium sized, about three inches broad, and two inches high; roundish and flattened at the ends, with prominent ribs on the sides, which extend to the eye and form ridges round the apex--the true character of the Calvilles. Skin, tender and delicate; when ripe, of a very pale straw color, and without the least tinge of red on the side exposed to the sun, but sometimes marked with a few traces of delicate russet, but no dots. Eye, large, and closed with long, broad, acuminate segments, and set in a pretty deep and very angular basin. Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, stout, inserted in a wide and rather shallow cavity, which is lined with thin russet. Flesh, white, tender, and delicate, with a sweet and pleasant flavor. A very good early culinary apple, but not of the finest quality, being too soft and tender; it is ripe during August, and lasts till the middle of September. The tree is a very strong and vigorous grower, with a large round head, and is an excellent bearer. It is distinguished by its very large foliage, the leaves being 4½ inches long by 3¼ broad. This is an old continental variety, but has been very little noticed by writers on Pomology. It is mentioned in the Jardinier Français, of 1653, and by De Quintinye, but the first work in which it is either figured or described, is Knoop’s Pomologie. Duhamel does not notice it, although it is enumerated in the catalogue of the Chartreuse, from whose garden he received the materials for producing his work on fruits. 56. CALVILLE BLANCHE D’HIVER.--Knoop. IDENTIFICATION.--Knoop Pom. 66. Duh. Arb. Fruit, I. 279. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 110. SYNONYMES.--Calville Blanche à Côtes, _Merlet Abregé_, 134. Calville Acoute, _Lang. Pom._ 134, t. lxxviii. f. 1. Calleville Blanc, _Schab. Prat._ II. 88. Calville Blanc, _Bret. Ecole_, II. 472. Calville Blanche, _Chart. Cat._ 51. Calville Tardive, _Acc. Christ Handb._ ed. 1, 381. Pomme de Framboise, _Ibid._ Pomme de Coin, _Ibid._ Pome de Fraise, _Ibid._ Rambour à Côtes Gros, _Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Bonnet Carré, _Acc. Bon. Jard._ Pomme Glace, _Ibid._ 1810, but erroneously. White Calville, _Switz. Fr. Gard._ 135. _Coxe View_. 136. White Autumn Calville, _Aber. Dict._ Winter White Calville, _Fors. Treat._ 96. _Lind. Guide_, 59. White Winter Calville, _Down. Fr. Amer._ 103. Französischer Quittenapfel, _Zink. Pom._ n. 89. Weiszer Himbeerapfel, _Meyen Baumsch._ 300. Weiszer Erdbeerenapfel, _Henne Anweis_, 130. Weiszer Wintercalville, _Diel Kernobst._ II. 12. Parisapfel, _Acc. Christ Handb._ Eckapfel, or Ekkeling, in Lower Saxony, _Acc. Christ._ Weisser Winterkalwil, _Baum. Cat._ 1850. FIGURE.--Knoop Pom. Tab. xi. Duh. Arb. Fr. vol. i., pl. ii. Jard. Fruit, ed. 2, pl. 103.