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grey russet on a green ground, which becomes yellowish at maturity. 

 Eye, with divergent segments, open, set in a shallow basin. Stamens, 

 marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, very short, in a narrow cavity. 

 Flesh, yellow, with a greenish tinge, crisp, juicy, and pleasantly though 

 not highly flavoured. Cells, oblate ; axile, closed. 



A second-rate dessert apple, which shrinks before Christmas. 



Queen's Apple. See Borsdorfer. 

 Quince. See Lemon Pippin. 



RABINE. Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two- 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish and much flattened, ribbed on 

 the sides, and undulated round the margin and basin of the eye. Skin, 

 greenish yellow, marked with a few faint broken streaks and freckles 

 of red, and strewed with grey russety dots on the shaded side, but 

 dark dull red, marked and mottled with stripes of deeper red, on the 

 side next the sun. Eye, partially open, with broad flat segments, and 

 placed in an angular basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep and 

 uneven cavity, from which issue a few linear markings of russet. 

 Flesh, yellowish, tender, crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a brisk and 

 pleasant flavour. 



An excellent apple, suitable either for culinary purposes or for the 

 dessert, but more properly for the former ; it is in use from October 

 to Christmas. 



RADFORD BEAUTY. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three- 

 quarters wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; roundish, flattened,, 

 and obtusely angular. Skin, dark red, streaked with bright crimson, 

 on the side next the sun, and greenish yellow, washed with thin red, 

 on the shaded side. Eye, small and closed, with flat, slightly divergent 

 segments, placed in a shallow, plaited basin. Stamens, marginal ; 

 tube, conical. Stalk, very short, deeply set in a round funnel-shaped 

 cavity. Flesh, crisp, juicy, sweet, and of good flavour. Cells,, 

 roundish obovate ; axile, closed. 



A Nottinghamshire apple, sent me by Messrs. J. R. Pearson & Sons, 

 of Chilwell, near Nottingham. 



RAMBO. Fruit, above medium size, three inches wide, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish oblate. Skin, smooth, pale 

 yellow on the shaded side, but yellow, streaked with red, on the side 

 next the sun, and strewed with large russety dots. Eye, closed, set 

 in a wide, rather shallow, and plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, and 

 slender, inserted more than half its length in a deep, round, and even 

 cavity. Flesh, greenish white, tender and delicate, with a brisk and 

 pleasant flavour. 



An American apple, suitable either for the dessert or for culinary 

 purposes, and esteemed in its native country as a variety of first-rate 

 excellence, but with us of inferior quality, even as a kitchen apple ; it 

 is in use from December to January. 



