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No 84

Red Calville - Calville Rouge

[sketch of apple]

This apple is described by the Abbé Rozier p. 209. vol. 8, no 4
It is a very large fruit and of a form rather long than flat.  The skin
is smooth of a very deep red.  The flesh is whit, the tast
sprightly and pleasant, full of juice.  It ripens in November &
December.  and by the French is thought to be a very estimable
apple. It is certainly very inferior to greater part of our table
apples of high estimation and from the trial of several years
I should pronounce it below mediocrity. 
        