289. RED STREAKED RAWLING.—H.
- Synonyme and Figure.—Rawling’s Fine Redstreak. [Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. x. f. 2.
Fruit, large, three inches wide by two and a quarter deep; roundish, and slightly angular. Skin, yellow, streaked with red on the shaded side; but entirely covered with clear dark red, and striped with still darker red on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a narrow and plaited basin. Stalk, long and slender, inserted in a wide and deep cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, sweet, juicy and well flavored, abounding in a sweet and pleasant juice.
A culinary apple, well adapted for sauce; it is in use from October to Christmas.
This is an old Devonshire apple, and no doubt the Sweet Rawling referred to in a communication to one of Bradley’s “Monthly Treatises,” from which the following is an extract. “We have an apple in this country called a Rawling, of which there is a sweet and a sour; the sour when ripe (which is very early) is a very fair large fruit, and of a pleasant taste, inclined to a golden color, full of narrow red streaks; the Sweet Rawling, has the same colours but not quite so large, and if boiled grows hard; whereas the sour becomes soft. Now what I have to inform you of is, viz.: I have a tree which bears both sorts in one apple; one side of the apple is altogether sweet, the other side sour; one side bigger than the other; and when boiled the one side is soft, the other hard, as all sweet and sour apples are.”
290. REINETTE DE BREDA.—Diel.
- Identification.—[Diel Kernobst.] i. 110. [Sickler Obstgärt.] ix. 212.
- Figure.—[Sickler Obstgärt.] ix. t. 9.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two and a quarter high; roundish and compressed. Skin, at first pale yellow, but changing as it ripens to fine deep golden yellow, and covered with numerous russety streaks and dots, and with a tinge of red and fine crimson dots, on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, set in a wide and plaited basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm and crisp, but tender and juicy, with a rich vinous and aromatic flavor.
A dessert apple of first-rate quality; in use from December to March.
This is the Reinette d’Aizerna of the Horticultural Society’s Catalogue, and may be the Nelguin of Knoop, but it is certainly not the Reinette d’Aizema of Knoop.