This section is from the "American Horticultural Manual Vol2" book, by J. L. Budd. Also available from Amazon American Horticultural Manual, Part Two.
Pound Apples (Pfundaepfel, Rambouraepfel).
Form: Large, and very large, of quite irregular form, sometimes flat round, sometimes longish, one half smaller than the other; mostly with isolated, broad, flat prominences extending out over the fruit.
Skin: Smooth and shining; firm, often tough; rarely traces of russet.
Flesh: Coarse-grained, loose, mostly with predominating acid and but slightly spicy.
Core Cells: Mostly very large and open, but sometimes closed and with hollow axis.
Orders and Suborders as in Class I.
Rambour Reinettes (Rambour-Reinetten).
Form: Medium size, large, and quite large fruits of more or less Calville-like or irregular form, with broad, sometimes marked, prominences around the curvature of the eye or also over the entire surface.
Skin: Quite firm, seldom quite smooth, mostly with russet traces, ground-colored or only inconstantly reddened on sunny side, never striped.
Flesh: Crisp (breaking), sometimes fine and sometimes coarsegrained, of high, sweet, vinous flavor.
Core: Mostly wide-celled, open and closed.
Order 1. Skin smooth; 2. Skin rough.
Suborders as in Class I.
One-colored or Wax Reinettes.
Form: Small, medium, and large, of regular round or flat round form, seldom longish, without marked prominences.
Skin: Sometimes smooth and shining, sometimes with russet traces, especially on curvature of calyx, in a few sorts becoming unctuous, without red blush or with only a little red on sunny side which is not constantly present.
Flesh: Firm or marrowy, fine-grained, of high, sweet vinous, sometimes very excellent flavor.
Core: Usually regular and closed.
Orders and Suborders as in Class VII.
Borsdorf Reinettes.
Form: Small, at the most of medium size, very regular, round or flat round.
Skin: Smooth, shining, with isolated warts and russet patches, ground-colored, colored and also indistinctly or even quite purely striped.
Flesh: Firm, very fine-grained, of high, peculiar sweet, and sweet vinous flavor.
Core: Nearly always regular and closed, only seldom with hollow axis.
Orders and Suborders as in Class I,
Red Reinettes.
Form: Small, medium, and large fruits of various forms; sometimes globular and flat round, sometimes longish, with mostly smooth basin, which is only rarely made uneven by flat prominences.
Skin: Shining, mostly smooth, only seldom with russet traces, colored or striped on greenish yellow, light yellow, but never fully golden yellow ground-color; the red blush usually pure and without russet traces.
Flesh: Delicate, crisp, sometimes marrowy and very spicy, of sweet, vinous, high flavor, here and there reddened under the skin.
Core: Sometimes open, sometimes closed.
Order 1, ground-colored. Order 2, striped.
Suborders as in Class I.
 
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