CATALOGUE AND DESCRIPTION OF FIGS. 267 
glossy; color green, the ribs shaded violet brown, numerous very small white 
specks all over the skin; eye large, but not protruding, wide open with 
small scales of an amber-rosy color; pulp amber, shaded rose in center; 
meat whitish, A magnifi- 
cent looking breba of first 
quality. Brebas ripe at 
Niles August 1. 
Rose Blanche—White Rose; 
La Rousse.—Very large, 
round, depressed or flat- 
tened at the apex. Stalk 
long; color brownish on 
white ground; pulp lively 
red; leaves crenate, 7-lobed, 
with pointed lobes. Re- 
quires dry soils. South of 
France. 
Rose Noire—Red-Black; Cou de 
Muelo.—Size medium, pyri- 
form, contracted at the mid- 
dle; skin reddish violet; pulp 
white ai ber; leavescrenate, 
7-lobed, with pointed lobes. 
Requires dry soils. One of 
the better figs in Provence. 
Hogg erroneously gives as 
synonym Black Ischia, 
which is a much smaller 
fig. (Fig. 86.) 
Rose Peyronne. — Medium; 
roundish oval; obscure ribs; 
stalk one-fourth inch long; 
skin pale brown with fine 
gray bloom; pulp pale sal- 
mon of good quality. 
Rose White—Rosr BLANCHE. Fia.85.—Leaf of Ronde Noire fig. 
Rosine.—Said to be a white, 
round fig from Syria. Good for drying. 
Rosso di Mensiglia.—lItaly. 
Rotondo Levigato.—Italy. 
Round, White Smyrna. (See Smyrna figs, p. 
Rouge de la Frette—Frelte; Red Frette.— 
Large; oblong; pyriform; skin red. Late. 
Grown around Frette, near Paris, France. 
Rougette.—Small; obovate; without ribs; 
stalk short; eye closed; skin red, coppery 
yellow in shade, shading to yellow toward 
stalk end. Pulp coppery red, of indif- 
ferent quality. (Hogg.) 
Round Black—RONDE NOIRE, 
Round Verdal—VERDAL, Rowunp. 
Round White—BLANCHE RONDE. 
Roussana—Ficus sylvestris var. rubella 
Geny.—Second crop: medium, 13 to 2 
inches diameter; color pale reddish-violet 
with red pulp. Nice and its vicinity. 
Royal—VERSAILLES. 
Royal de Versailles-—VERSAILLES. 
Royal Vineyard.—Fruit above medium or 
medium long; pyriform, with long slender 
neck and long slender stalk; ribs mere 
longitudinal lines. Eye large, open; skin 
thin, hairy, reddish brown or purple, with 
thick blue bloom; pulp bright reddish, 
hollow in center, but otherwise juicy and 
good and highly flavored. The true name 
was not known when the variety was introduced into England. (Fig. 87.) 
Rubado—Cuore; Rubaldo; Figa Rubado (Genoa); Arbauda; Roubauda Blanca 
(Nice); Ficus richardi Risso; Ficus carica var. robusta Geny.—Above 
Fic. 86.—Rose Noire fig. 
