PLATE XXIX. 
8. RED ROYAL. 
This Apple is a favourite of some standing in the Gloucestershire Orchards. Its history has 
been lost. 
Description .—Fruit : small, roundish, inclining to oblate and sometimes to ovate, bluntly 
angular on the sides. Skin : almost entirely covered with dark crimson, except on the shaded side 
where it is yellow ; the surface sprinkled with russety dots. Eye : quite closed with convergent 
segments ; tube, funnel shaped ; stamens, median. Stalk : short and slender, inserted in a rather 
deep cavity. Flesh : white and tender. Juice : plentiful, pale in colour, sweet but slightly bitter, 
and pleasantly subacid. Cells of the core, open. 
Mr. With’s analysis of the Red Royal (season 1880), is as follows :— 
Density of fresh juice ... ... ... ... 1*035 
Ditto after 24 hours exposure ... ... ... 1*037 
One hundred parts by weight of fresh juice yield :— 
Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 13*70 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 00*26 
Water ... ... ... ... ... 86*04 
This Apple is highly esteemed in East Gloucestershire, where it is thought to make cider 
of the first quality ;—of good colour and flavour, and very sweet and pleasant to drink. The 
analysis here given does not indicate so high a character, and it is very probable that this variety 
owes much of its favour to its brilliant colour, and the ready sale it meets with in the market as an 
edible, or culinary fruit. 
The tree is hardy and bears well. It likes a high situation and a strong deep loam, well 
drained ; as indeed do most apples that make cider worth drinking. 
