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ROCKLEY'S. Fruit, medium sized, three inches wide, and two 

 inches and three-quarters high ; ovate, angular and uneven in its 

 outline. Skin, greenish yellow on the shaded side, but covered with 

 dark red, streaked with darker red, on the side exposed to the sun, and 

 speckled with broken streaks of red where the red and yellow blend. 

 Eye, large and closed, with flat convergent segments, set in a deep 

 and ribbed basin. Stamens, basal; tube, very wide, funnel-shaped. 

 Stalk, about three-quarters of an inch long, inserted in a deep fur- 

 rowed cavity. Flesh, remarkably tender, not very juicy, but sweet. 

 Cells, round ; axile. 



A cooking apple, which I met with at the Hereford meeting of the 

 Poniological Committee of the VVoolhope Naturalists Field Club. It is 

 the softest and most tender-fleshed apple I have ever met with. 



Rolkmd. See Belle Bonne. 



ROXALDS'S GOOSEBERRY PIPPIN (Gooseberry Pippin). Fruit, 

 small, two inches and a quarter wide, and an inch and three-quarters 

 high ; roundish and inclining to oblate, somewhat obscurely ribbed. 

 Skin, smooth, of a fine uniform lemon-yellow colour, but of a deeper 

 colour next the sun, thinly strewed with large russet dots, marked with 

 russet flakes and frequently with a red blush next the sun. Eye, 

 small and open, with small, erect, acute segments, placed in a wide, 

 shallow, and plaited basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, small, conical, 

 or rather cup-shaped. Stalk, very short, imbedded the whole of its 

 length in a deep cavity, which is lined with pale brown russet and 

 which extends in ramifications over the base. Flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 and fine-grained, very juicy, sweet, brisk, and vinous, with a pleasant 

 perfume. Cells, obovate ; axile. 



A very excellent dessert apple ; ripe in November, and continues in 

 use till February, when it is quite plump and juicy. The tree is a very 

 handsome grower of the smallest size, and an abundant bearer. 



The name Gooseberry Pippin, by which this is described in Ronalds' Pyrus 

 Ma I us hrenifurdiensis, is not sufficient to distinguish it from the Gooseberry Apple, 

 with which it is apt to be confounded ; and I have therefore adopted the specific 

 name of Ronalds to avoid so great an inconvenience, for this admirable dessert 

 apple ought not to be mistaken for the culinary one. This is now a very rare fruit, 

 ami I doubt much if it is to be had true in an ordinary way. I am indebted to 

 F. J. Graham, Esq., of Cranford, Middlesex, for grafts and fruit, it having been 

 grown extensively for many years in his orchards at Cranford, for Covent Garden 

 Market. 



Ronalds's Seedling. See Trumpinyton. 

 Rook's Nest. See Burntisland Spice. 



ROSE DE CHINE. 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-coloured dots. Eye, 



