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The first class of Ribbed Apples contains all those fruits which 

 have prominent ribs around the eye and extending round the fruit. 

 The first order of true Calvilles corresponds to Christ's division (a), 

 and contains such fruits as ' Lord Grosvenor,' ' Calville Blanche 

 d'Hiver,' and in the Striped Calvilles 'Gravenstein.' 



The second order of Schlottev or rattling Apples would contain 

 ' Keswick Codlin,' 'Lord Suffield/ and 'Golden Spire.' This is a new 

 division and is named from the rattling of the pips in the large cores, 

 a character, however, by no means common to all the varieties 

 included in this division. The third order of Gulderling contains the 

 so-called False Calvilles, of which the ' Yellow Belleflower ' is a well- 

 known example. The apples of this group have not the balsamic 

 flavour of the true Calvilles, and the flesh approaches the Reinette 

 character. 



The second class of Rose Apples is based on Christ's order (c) 

 of the Calvilles, and would include such varieties as ' Red Astrachan/ 

 'Duchess of Oldenburg,' and among the yellow sorts 'White Astra- 

 chan ' and ' Transparent de Croncels.' 



The Rambours of Class 3 are a new division in which he has 

 followed Christ in adopting a French class name. The word Rambour 

 is first met with in the "Natura Stirpium " of Ruellius, published 

 in 1535, and it is also to be found in many of the sixteenth-century 

 Herbals and also in the " Theatre d' Agriculture " of Olivier de 

 Serres. 



It seems first to have been applied to an Apple grown in the 

 neighbourhood of Amiens. It is interesting to note in parenthesis 

 that while no French pomologist has published a Classification of 

 Apples there has always been a tendency in that country to use the 

 name of a distinct variety generically. Rambour as denoting shape 

 and Reinette for distinct quality of flesh have, for example, become 

 used for all fruits which resemble the original Rambour and Reinette, 

 following a process well known in botanical history. 



Of the Rambour class we may cite ' Warner's King ' and ' Rambour 

 Franc' 



In adopting from Christ the class of Reinettes Diel made an 

 excellent division, which was later on to be much extended. 



He divided them into four classes ; Self-coloured, as ' Old Golden 

 Pippin,' 'Summer Golden Pippin'; red, such as 'Cox's Orange,' 

 'Mother,' and 'Margil ' ; grey, 'Cockle's Pippin,' 'Norman's Pippin '; 

 and gold, of which the ' Golden Reinette ' and our ' King of the 

 Pippins ' may stand as types. 



Having proceeded so far, Diel evidently found that the Natural 

 system would carry him no farther, and he therefore used shape and 

 colouring as the basis of his last three groups. Examples of these 

 classes will readily occur. 



It will be seen that Diel made considerable advances upon the 

 system of Christ, and his system held the field for many years. 



A full translation, with but few mistakes, may be found in Hogg's 

 " The Apple and its Varieties." 



