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its length in the cavity, and with a swelling on one side of it. Flesh, 

 greenish white, crisp, tender, and with a fine brisk sub-acid flavour. 

 Cells, oblate ; axile. 



A very handsome cooking apple, very solid and heavy, which keeps 

 till May. 



ROUGH PIPPIN. Fruit, small, two inches wide, and over two 

 inches high ; conical, even and regular in its outline, longer on one 

 side of the axis than on the other. Skin, yellow on the shaded side, 

 and pale red on the side next the sun, the whole surface being more or 

 less covered with patches of thin cinnamon-coloured russet. Eye, 

 small, with erect convergent segments, set on a level with the surface. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, stout, inserted ob- 

 liquely in a very shallow cavity by the side of a fleshy swelling. 

 Flesh, firm, rather dry, and without much flavour. Cells, roundish 

 elliptical ; axile, slit. 



A Somersetshire apple, which has a close resemblance to Adams's 

 Pearmain, but very inferior to it ; in use up till January. 



Round Russet Harvey. See Golden Harvey. 



ROUNDWAY MAGNUM BONUM. Fruit, large ; ovate, angular 

 on the sides, having five prominent ribs, which extend into the basin 

 of the eye and form ridges round the crown. Skin, lemon yellow, with 

 a few broad broken streaks of pale crimson on one side ; it is here and 

 there marked with several russet patches. Eye, half open, with flat 

 convergent segments that are reflexed at the tips, and set in a narrow 

 basin. Stamens, basal ; tube, conical. Stalk, about half an inch long, 

 very stout, and inserted in a pretty deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish 

 white, tender, crisp, very juicy, and with a fine aroma. Cells, obovate ; 

 axile. 



A first-rate culinary or dessert apple, very solid and heavy for its 

 size ; in use till April without shrivelling. 



This was raised at Roundway Park, near Devizes, and was first exhibited at the 

 Royal Horticultural Society in 1864, when it received a first-class certificate. 



ROUND WINTER NONESUCH. Fruit, large, over three inches 

 wide, and two and a half high ; roundish, and very considerably 

 flattened, or somewhat oblate ; uneven in its outline, caused by several 

 obtuse and unequal, though not prominent ribs on the sides. Skin, 

 thick and membranous, smooth, pale yellow, slightly tinged with green 

 on the shaded side, but on the side exposed to the sun it is marked 

 with broken stripes and spots of beautiful deep crimson, thinly 

 sprinkled all over with a few russety dots. Eye, large and closed, 

 nearly level with the surface, and sometimes -so prominently set and 

 raised above the surface as to appear puffed up, and set on bosses. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, short, funnel-shaped. Stalk, very short, 

 inserted in a shallow cavity, and not protruding beyond the base. 



