PLATE LXV. 
9. SELWOOD’S REINETTE. 
This variety is a different apple from the Selwoods Reinette of the Horticultural Society’s 
Catalogue, which is described as being small, pearmain-shaped, greenish yellow, and moreover 
a dessert apple. It is, however, identical with Selwoods Reinette of Rogers, who, as we are 
informed in his “ Fruit Cultivator” secured it upwards of eighty years ago, from Messrs. Hewitt 
and Co., of Brompton. It is therefore probably above a century old. 
Description .— Fruit : large, three inches wide, and about two inches and a half high ; round 
and flattened, angular on the sides, and with five prominent plaits round the eye. Eye : small, 
open, and not at all depressed, but rather elevated on the surface. Skin : pale green, almost entirely 
covered with red, which is marked with broken stripes of darker red, those on the shaded side 
being paler, and not so numerous, as on the side exposed to the sun, Stalk : about half an inch 
long, very stout, and inserted the whole of its length in a russety cavity. Flesh : greenish white, 
tender, brisk, and pleasantly flavoured. 
A culinary apple of good but not first-rate quality. It keeps well, being in season from 
December to March. 
The tree is a strong and healthy grower, and bears abundantly. 
