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THE FRUIT GARDEN 



RiBSTON Pippin. — Very fertile ; fruit large, irregular, cone-shaped ; stalk short, wiry ; 

 eye large ; skin golden yellow, dull red, marbled, tawny in the sun ; fiesh yellowish, 

 sweet, perfumed ; December-March. 



ROYALE d'Angleterre (Reinette d'Angleterre). — Very fertile ; fruit very large, 

 rounded, conical ; stalk short, thick, oblique ; eye large, open or half-closed ; skin lemon 

 yellow, orange yellow, and clear red, with tawny spots on the sunny side ; flesh yellowish 

 sweet, perfumed; September-December. 



Sugar-loaf Pippin (Reinette Pain de Sucre). — Moderately fertile ; fruit moderately 

 large, truncate, conical, more or less pointed or rounded; skin beautiful pale green, 

 turning to yellow ; eye half-open, in narrow and deep cavity ; stalk medium or short, in 

 large cavity ; flesh whitish, rather crisp, somewhat acid ; beginning of August. 



TjlANSPARENTE DE Croncels. — Fertile ; fruit rather large, spherical ; stalk slender ; 

 eye large, open or half-open ; skin yellowish white, pale pink on the sunny side ; flesh 

 salmon-coloured, juicy, rather acid, perfumed ; August-December. 



Classification according to Time of Ripening 



Astrakan Rouge 

 Beauty of Bath 



Rambour d'Ete 



Grand Alexandre 

 Gravenstein 



Jeanne Hardy 

 Menagfere 



Fenouillet Gris 

 Linnaeus Pippin 



Api Rose 

 Calville Blanche 

 Pigeon Rouge d'Hiver 

 Rambour d'Hiver 

 Reinette de Caux 

 „ de Cuzy 



End of July 



I Borovitsky 



August 

 Sugar-loaf Pippin 



A ugust-September 



I Transparente de Croncels 



Sefitember- October 



I Peasgood's Nonsuch 



October, November, December 



I Reine des Reinettes 



I Royale d'Angleterre 



December-January 



I Reinette Baumann 



I „ Doree de Vitry 



January-April 



Reinette Blanche du Canada 

 „ du Canada Grise 

 „ Franche 

 „ Grise de Saintonge 

 „ Grise de Vitry 



Varieties for Market Culture 

 Dwarf Trees 



Grand Alexandre 

 Transparente de Croncels 

 Reinette Blanche du Canada 

 „ Grise du Canada 



Reinette de Caux 

 Api Rose 

 Calville Blanche 

 Reinette de Cuzy 



