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Queen Anne. See American Mother. 



QUEEN OF SAUCE.— Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter 

 broad, and two inches and a half high ; obtuse-ovate, broad and flat 

 at the base, narrowing towards the crown, and angular on the sides. 

 Skin, greenish yellow on the shaded side, but on the side exposed to 

 the sun it is flushed with red, which is marked with broken streaks of 

 deeper red ; it is strewed all over with patches of thin delicate russet, 

 and large russety specks, those round the eye being linear. Eye, 

 open, set in a deep and angular basin, which is russety at the base. 

 Stalk, about a quarter of an inch long, deeply inserted in a round 

 cavity, which is lined with coarse russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, 

 juicy, and sugary, with a brisk and pleasant flavour. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality, and suitable also for the 

 dessert ; it is in use from November tUl January. 



Queen's Apple. See Borsdorffer. 



Quince. See Lemon Pippin. 



RABINE. — ^Fruit, large, 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 and 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 flavour. 



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

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

 to Christmas. 



RAMBO. — ^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, tender and delicate, with a brisk and 

 pleasant flavour. 



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

 purposes, and esteemed in its native country as a variety of first- 

 rate excellence, but with us of inferior quality, even as a kitchen 

 apple ; it is in use from December to January. 



RAMBOUR FRANC— Fruit, very large, four inches broad, and 

 three inches high ; roundish and flattened, with five ribs on the sides 



