Heritage Fruits Society

Ranger
Red Astrachan
Red Newton
Red Winter Pearmain
Reinette du Canada
Reinette Musquee
Rhode Island Greening
Rokewood
Rome Beauty
Roundway Magnum Bonum
Royal Jubilee
Rymer

Ranger:

Red Astrachan:
Fruit, above the medium size, three inches and a quarter wide, and three inches high ; roundish, and obscurely angular on its sides. Skin, greenish-yellow where shaded, and almost entirely covered with deep crimson on the side exposed to the sun, the whole surface covered with a fine delicate bloom. Eye, closed, set in a moderately deep and somewhat irregular basin. Stalk, short, deeply inserted in a russety cavity.
Flesh, white, crisp, very juicy, sugary, briskly and pleasantly flavored. An early dessert apple, but only of second-rate quality. It is ripe in August (northern hemisphere), and requires to be eaten when gathered from the tree, as it soon becomes mealy.
This variety was imported from Sweden, by William Atkinson, Esq., of Grove End, Paddington, in 1816.
The tree does not attain a large size, but is healthy and vigorous, and an abundant bearer.

Robert Hogg, British Pomology p 136

Red Newton:

Red Winter Pearmain:

Reinette du Canada:

Synonyms.—Reinette du Canada, Grosse Reiuet.te d'Angleterre, Reinette de Canada Blanche, Reinette de Canada a Cotes, Reinette de Caen, De Canada, De Bretagne, Portugal, Janurea, Reinette Grosse de Canada, St. Helena Russet, Wahre Reinette, Grosse Englische Reinette, Canadian
Reinette, Canada Reinette, Grosse d'Angleterre. Mala Janurea, of the Ionian Islands.

Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and three inches deep ; oblato-conical, with prominent ribs originating at the eye, and diminishing as they extend downwards towards the stalk. Skin, greenish-yellow, with a tinge of brown on the side next the sun, covered with numerous brown russety dots, and reticidations of russet. Eye, large, partially closed, with short segments, and set in a rather deep and plaited basin. Stalk, about an inch long, slender, inserted in a deep, wide, and generally
smooth cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm, juicy, brisk, and highly flavored.
An apple of first-rate quality, either for culinary or dessert use ; it is in season from November to April (northern hemisphere).
The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, and attains a large size. It is also an excellent bearer ; the finest fruit are produced from dwarf trees.

Robert Hogg, British Pomology p 136

Reinette Musquee:

Rhode Island Greening

Rokewood:

Rome Beauty:

Roundway Magnum Bonum:

Royal Jubilee:

Rymer:
Synonyms.—Caldwell, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed i. 124. Green Cossings, Ibid. 411.
Newbold's Duke of York, Ibid. 286. Cordwall

Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three quarters high ; roundish, and flattened, with five obscure ribs, on the sides, extending into the basin of the eye. Skin, smooth, thinly
strewed with redish-brown dots, and a few faint streaks of pale red on the shaded side ; and of a beautiful deep red, covered with yellowish grey dots, on the side next the sun. Eye, open, with broad reflexed segments, set in a round and moderately deep basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a round and deep cavity, lined with rough russet, which extends in ramifications over the base. Flesh, yellowish, tender, and pleasantly sub-acid.
A good culinary apple, in use from October to Christmas. (Northern hemisphere)

Robert Hogg, British Pomology p 136

Apple Varieties at Petty's Orchard 'R' (a work in progress)