166 BEITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



and well flavored, abounding in a sweet and pleasant juice. 



A culinary apple, well adapted for sauce ; it is in use from October to 

 Christmas. 



This is an old Devonshire apple, and no doubt the Sweet Rawling re- 

 ferred to in a communication to one of Bradley's " Monthly Treatises," 

 from which the following is an extract. " We have an apple in this 

 country called a Rawling, of which there is a sweet and a sour ; the sour 

 when ripe (which is very early) is a very fair large fruit, and of a pleasant 

 taste, inclined to a golden color, full of narrow red streaks ; the Sweet 

 Rawling, has the same colours but not quite so large, and if boiled grows 

 hard ; whereas the sour becomes soft. Now what I have to inform you 

 of is, viz. : I have a tree which bears both sorts in one apple; one side of 

 the apple is altogether sweet, the other side sour ; one side bigger than 

 the other ; and when boiled the one side is soft, the other hard, as all 

 sweet and sour apples are." 



290. REINETTE DE BREDA.— Diel. 



Identification. — Diel Kernobst. i. 110. Sickler Obstgart. ix. 212. 

 rjGUKE. — Sickler Obstgart. ix. t. 9. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two and a 

 quarter high ; roundish and compressed. Skin, at first pale yellow, but 

 changing as it ripens to fine deep golden yellow, and covered with numer- 

 ous russety streaks and dots, and with a tinge of red and fine crimson 

 dots, on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, set in a wide and plaited basin. 

 Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish- 

 white, firm and crisp, but tender and juicy, with a rich vinous and aro- 

 matic flavor. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality ; in use from December to March. 



This is the Reinette d'Aizerna of the Horticultural Society's Catalogue, 

 and may be the Nelguin of Knoop, but it is certainly not the Reinette 

 d'Aizema of Knoop. 



291. REINETTE BLANCHE D'ESPAGNE.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc, Cat. ed. 3, n. 636. Diel Kernobst. v. B. 80. Mayer 



Pom. Tranc. Down. Fr. Amer. 130. 

 Synontmes. — Reinette d'Espagne, Bret. JEcole, ii. 477. Reinette Tendre. Blanc 



d'Espagne, Bon. Jard. 1843, .514. D'Espagne, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. De Rateau, 



ace. Pom. Mag. Concombre Ancien, Ibid. Fall Pippin, Bog. Fr. Cult. 95. 



Cobbett's Fall Pippin, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. Large Fall Pippin,' Hort. Soc. Cat. 



ed. ], 315 Camuesar, in Spain. White Spanish Reinette, Pom. Mag. Lind 



Guide, 83. 



FiGDRE. — Pom. Mag. t. 110. 



Fruit, very large, three inches and a half wide, and three inches and 

 three quarters high ; oblato-oblong, angular on the sides and uneven at 

 the crown, where it is nearly as broad as at the base. Skin, smooth and 

 unctuous to the feel, yellowish-green in the shade, but orange tinged 

 with brownish-red next the sun, and strewed with dark dots. Eye, large 

 and open, set in a deep, angular, and irregular basin. Stalk, half-an-inch 

 long, inserted in a narrow, and even cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, 



