flavour very sweet and pear like. Eye, a little open 

 in a broad irregular basin. Stem, stout in a wide 

 deep cavity. Growth, spreading ; fertility, moderate. 

 Leaf, large, dark, held out, slightly upcupped and 

 undulating, boldly curved serrate, very downy below. 

 Origin, raised at Roundway Park, Devizes, and brought 

 to notice about 1864. A fruit of remarkable flavour, 

 deserving wider cultivation. 



ROUND WINTER NONSUCH. Her. Pom., 61. 

 Culinary, till February, large, 3 by 2j, round flattened, 

 fairly regular. Colour, pale greenish-yellow with slight 

 flush and broad broken stripes. Flesh, soft, greenish- 

 white, sweet. Eye, closed, on a level with the surface, 

 Basin a little wrinkled. Stem, short and stout, in a round, 

 moderately deep, very slightly russet cavity. Growth, 

 upright and free ; fertility, said to be good. Leaf, 

 large, upfolded, reflexed, irregularly serrate. Origin, 

 unrecorded ; known in 1842. A useful cooking variety, 

 but hardly needed. 



Rousette Royale : see Royal Russet. 

 Roxbury Russet : see Boston Russet. 

 Royal Codlin : see Dutch Codlin. 

 Royal George : see Clark's Seedling. 



ROYAL JUBILEE. Culinary, October to December, 

 medium, 2\ by 2|, oval, conical, very slightly ribbed. 

 Colour, pale lemon yellow occasionally with the faintest 

 orange flush. Flesh, firm, yellow, sub-acid : cooks 

 well. Eye, closed, in a narrow much ribbed basin. 

 Stem, short and stout, in a rather wide, slightly russet 

 cavity. Growth, very dwarf ; extremely fertile. Leaf, 

 medium, tapering to petiole, little down-folded, coarsely 

 crenate. Origin, raised by Mr. John Graham, of 

 Hounslow, was introduced by Messrs. G. Bunyard & Co., 

 Maidstone, in 1893. Valuable for its late flowering 

 and regular cropping habits. 



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