163 BEITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



serted in a round cavity, which is lined with coarse russet. Flesh, yel- 

 lowish, firm, crisp, juicy and sugary, with a brisk and pleasant flavor. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality, and not unworthy of the dessert ; 

 it is in use from November to January. 



281. RABINE.— Hort. 



Fruit, above medium size, three inches and a quarter wide, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, and much flattened, ribbed on the 

 sides, and undulated round the margin of the basin of the eye. Skin, 

 greenish-yellow, marked with a few faint, broken streaks and freckles of 

 red, and strewed with grey russety dots on the shaded side ; but dark 

 dull red, marked and mottled with stripes of deeper red, on the side next 

 the sun. Eye, partially open, with broad flat segments, and placed in an 

 angular basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep and uneven cavity, from 

 which issue a few linear markings of russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a brisk and pleasant flavor. 



An excellent apple, suitable either for culinary purposes or for the des- 

 sert, but more properly for the former ; it is in use from October to 

 Christmas. 



282. RAMBO.— Coxe. 



Identification. — Coxe View. 116. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. Down. Fr. Amer. 93. 



Stnonyme — Romanite, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. American Seek-no-farther, Ibid. 

 Bread and Cheese Apple, ace. Down. Fr. Amer. 



Fruit, above medium size, three inches wide, and two inches and a 

 quarter high ; roundish oblate. Skin, smooth, pale yellow on the shaded 

 side ; but yellow, streaked with red, on the side next the sun, and strewed 

 with large russety dots. Eye, closed, set in a wide, rather shallow, and 

 plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, and slender, inserted more than half 

 its length in a deep, round, and even cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, ten- 

 der and delicate, with a brisk and pleasant flavor. 



An American apple, suitable either for the dessert or for culinary pur- 

 poses ; and esteemed in its native country as a variety of first-rate excel- 

 lence ; but with us of inferior quality, even as a kitchen apple ; it is in use 

 from December to January. 



283. RAMBOUR FRANC— Duh. 



Identification.— Duh. Arb. Fruit, i. 307, pi. x. Mill. Diet. Hort. See. Cat. ed. 3, 

 n. 615. Down. Fr. Amer. 94. 



Synontmes.— Frank Eambour, Switz. Fr. Gard. 135. Lind. Guide, 15. Rambour 

 Gros, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 844. Rambour Blanc, Merlet. Abrigi. Rambour. 

 Quint. Inst. i. 202. Dahur. Traits. 115. Le Rambour, Bret. Eeole, ii. 470i 

 Rambourg, Riv. et Moul. Meili. 190. Rambourge, Gibs. Fr. Gard. 353. Pome 

 de Eambures, liea Pom. 210. Rambour d'e'te', Poit. et Turp. Rambour d'ete' 

 or Summer Rambour, Coxe View. Cambour, Bauh. Hist. i. 21. Charmant 

 Blanc, Zink Pom. No. 10. t. 2. Pomme de Notre Dame, ace. Dahuron. 

 Friiher Rambourger, Mayer Pom. Franc. No. 18, t. 13. Weisse Sommerram- 

 bour, Siekler Obstgdrt. ix. 25. Lothinger, Saltz. Pom. No. 5. Lothinger Ram- 

 bour, Diel Kemobst. i. 93. 



FiGDREs. — Jard. Fruit, ed. 2, pi. 94. Siekler Obstgart. ix. t. 3. 



