PLATE XXXI. 
3. ROYAL CODLIN. 
There is no published account of the origin or history of this Apple. 
Description .—Fruit: large and handsome, conical, with broad base ; three and a half inches 
broad by two and three quarters high ; irregular in outline with very obtuse angles. Skin : greenish 
yellow with a red blush on the sunny side, and mottled with deeper colours ; the whole surface 
covered with distinct fine spots of thin russet which also covers the stalk cavity and extends in faint 
lines from it up the side of the apple. Eye : closed, set in a narrow plaited cavity. Stalk : stout 
with fleshy protuberance inserted in a broad and not very deep cavity. Flesh : white and tender 
with a sweet acidulated flavour. 
This Apple is so pleasant and agreeable when fresh gathered from the tree as to make it 
worthy of the dessert table. It is also an excellent culinary apple. 
The tree grows freely and bears well. Its blossoms are beautiful, they are very large, the 
outer side of the petals of a deep rosy crimson, whilst the inner side is a pearly white. 
