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the stalk it is greenish and russety. Eye, set in a pretty deep and 

 somewhat angular basin ; segments, broad and convergent, erect. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, short, funnel-shaped. Stalk, short and slender, 

 set the whole of its length in a round and deep cavity. Flesh, yellow- 

 ish, very tender and juicy, with a pleasant flavour, which makes it 

 acceptable as a dessert fruit, the texture being equal in delicacy to that 

 of an imported Newtown Pippin. Cells, roundish obovate ; axile. 

 A celebrated Herefordshire cider apple. 



Red Winter Calville. See Calville Rouge d'River. 



REINETTE. There are various opinions respecting the derivation 

 of this word. At first sight it appears to have a French origin, and 

 supposing it to be so, some have translated it Little Queen, though there 

 is no such definition in any French dictionary I have consulted. Others 

 say it is derived from Rainette, a kind of frog, because Reinettes are 

 always, or ought to be, spotted with russet freckles, like the belly of the 

 frog. 



Thomas Fuller, the eminent historian and divine, says, " When a 

 pepin is planted (i.e., grafted) on a pepin stock, the fruit growing thence 

 is called a Renate." This, I think, is the origin of the word, Reinette 

 being derived from Henatus renewed or reproduced. A Reinette is 

 therefore a grafted apple, and a Pippin is a seedling. See Pippin. 



Reinette Baumann. See Baumann's Reinette. 



REINETTE BLANCHE D'ESPAGNE (Josephine; Belle Jose- 

 phine; Eeinette d'Espagne ; DeRateau; Concombre Ancien ; American 

 Fall Pippin; Camuesar ; White Spanish Reinette). 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. Stamens, marginal ; tube, 

 conical. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a narrow and even 

 cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, juicy, and sweet. Cells, open, 

 obovate. 



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. 



The tree is healthy and vigorous, and an excellent bearer. It 

 requires a dry, warm, and loamy soil. 



REINETTE CARPENTIN. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter 

 wide, and two inches high ; roundish, or rather oblato-oblong. Skin, 

 yellowish green on the shaded side, but striped, and washed with 

 dark glossy red, on the side next the sun, and so much covered with 

 a thick cinnamon-coloured russet that the ground colours are some- 

 times only partially visible. Eye, set in a wide, saucer-like basin, 



