PLATE LXV. 
5. SEIGENDE REINETTE. 
The history of this Apple is not given by any of the pomological authorities. It was sent 
to the Royal Horticultural Society about i860 by Superintendent Oberdieck, of Hanover. 
Description .—Fruit : medium sized, roundish, pearmain-shaped. Skin : rich yellow, tinged 
and streaked with red next the sun, and a patch of russet round the stalk. Eye : fair sized, closed, 
the segments of the calyx reflexed, set in a shallow and somewhat irregular basin. Stalk : about 
half an inch long, slender, pretty deeply inserted. Flesh : yellowish, firm, juicy and sweet. In 
many respects this apple comes near the King of the Pippins , but is, however, quite distinct, and 
of a superior quality. 
A good dessert apple, in season from October to January. 
The tree is healthy and strong and a great bearer. 
