325. SELWOOD’S REINETTE.—Rog.
- Identification.—[Rog. Fr. Cult.] 103.
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, which is 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 flavored.
A culinary apple, of good, but not first-rate, quality. It is in use from December to March.
The tree is a strong and healthy grower, and an abundant bearer.
This is certainly a different variety from the Selwood’s Reinette of the Horticultural Society’s Catalogue, which is described as being small, pearmain-shaped, greenish-yellow, and a dessert apple. It is however, identical with the Selwood’s Reinette of Rogers, who, as we are informed, in his “Fruit Cultivator,” received it upwards of sixty years ago from Messrs. Hewitt and Co., of Brompton. The tree now in my possession, I procured as a graft from the private garden of the late Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith; and as it has proved to be the same as Rogers’s variety, I am induced to think that it is correct, while that of the Horticultural Society is wrong. It was raised by a person of the name of Selwood, of Lancaster.
326. SHAKESPERE.—M.
- Identification & Figure.—[Maund Fruit.] pl. 71.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two inches and a half high; roundish, narrowing a little towards the eye. Skin, dark green on the shaded side, and brownish-red on the side next the sun, which is marked with a few broken stripes of darker red; the whole strewed with russety dots. Eye, small, and partially open, set in a narrow and irregular basin, which is ridged round the margin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a rather deep cavity. Flesh, greenish-yellow, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a brisk vinous flavor.