200 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



Flesb, greenish white, tender, sweet, juicy, and pleasantly flavoured. 

 Cells, obovate ; abaxile. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality ; it is in use from November to- 

 March. 



The tree is an excellent bearer, and the fruit being large and 

 beautiful, this variety is worthy the notice of the market gardener and 

 orchardist. 



KOYAL CODLIN. Fruit, large, three inches wide, and three 

 inches and a quarter high ; uneven in its outline, angular, and undu- 

 lating, distinctly five-sided, especially towards the crown. Skin, pale 

 yellowish green, or greenish yellow when it ripens, and with a pale 

 thin red cheek on the side next the sun. Eye, closed, set in a narrow 

 angular basin, with short, erect, connivent segments. Stamens, 

 median ; tube, short conical. Stalk, thick and fleshy, obliquely 

 inserted, with a fleshy knob on one side of it. Flesh, soft, tender, and 

 mildly acid. Cells, elliptical or ovate ; abaxile. 



An excellent kitchen apple ; ripe in October. 



EOYALE (French Roy ale). Fruit, above medium size, three inches 

 wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; roundish ovate, bluntly 

 angular. Skin, very much covered with ashy grey russet, with an 

 orange cheek streaked with crimson on the side next the sun, and 

 yellow on the shaded side. Eye, closed, with erect convergent seg- 

 ments, set in a pretty deep and ribbed basin. Stamens, median ; tube, 

 funnel-shaped. Stalk, over half an inch long, stout, inserted in a deep 

 cavity, which is greenish. Flesh, yellowish, juicy, brisk, sweet, and 

 with a good flavour. Cells, elliptical ; abaxile. 



A good cooking apple, grown in the orchards about Maidstone, and 

 sent me by Mr. Killick, of Langley ; it keeps till Christmas. 



Koyal Pearmain. See Summer Pearmain and Herefordshire Pear- 

 main. 



ROYAL RED-STREAK. Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter 

 wide, and two inches and a half high ; oblate, prominently ribbed, and 

 uneven. Skin, almost entirely overspread with bright red, covered 

 with dark crimson stripes, and wherever the ground colour appears it is 

 yellow, and the base is quite covered with russet. Eye, rather large, 

 closed, with convergent segments, deeply set in an uneven angular 

 basin. Stamens, median ; tube, long, funnel-shaped. Stalk, short, 

 rather deeply inserted. Flesh, yellowish, sometimes tinged with red, 

 tender, juicy, and with a pleasant acidity. Cells, small, obovate ; 

 axile. 



A fine handsome cooking apple, sent from Devonshire by Mr. 

 Rendell, of Netherton Manor ; it is in use in November. 



ROYAL REINETTE. Fruit, large ; conical. Skin, yellow, smooth 

 and glossy, strewed all over with russety spots, stained and striped 

 with brilliant red on the side next the sun. Eye, large and open, set 



