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Red Astrachan – Rheum

Red Astrachan

Dessert. Fruit good size, bright; flavour delicate and rich. August to September.

Reinette Grise

Dessert. Flesh yellowish-white, sugary, pleasant; flavour sub-acid. November to April. It does best on the Paradise stock, and is an abundant cropper.

Ribston Pippin

Dessert. Fruit greenish-yellow and red, medium; flavour rich, aromatic, excellent. October to December.

Raspberry

(F). Fruit dark red, small, hairy; early. Branches spreading, pendulous.

Red Champagne

(F). Fruit light red, small, roundish-oblong, hairy. Branches very erect. A good bearer. SYNS. Countess of Errol and Ironmonger of Scotland.

Red Turkey

Fruit dark red, small, obovate, smooth; late. Branches somewhat erect.

Red Warrington

(F). Fruit red, roundish-oblong, hairy; late, hangs well in autumn. Branches pendulous. One of the best for general cultivation. SYNS. Aston Seedling, Volunteer.

Rifleman

Fruit red, very large, roundish, hairy. Branches erect. A good bearer.

Rumbullion

Fruit pale yellow, small, very downy; early; much cultivated for bottling. Branches erect.

Randia

(named in honour of Isaac Rand, formerly Praefectus of the Botanic Garden of the Society of Apothecaries at Chelsea). SYNS. Cupia, Oxyceros,

Rhaphiolepis

(from rhaphis, a needle, and lepis, a scale; alluding to the narrow, subulate bracts). Erroneously spelt Raphiolepis. Indian Hawthorn. ORD.

Rheum

(from rheon, an adjective formed from Rha, the old Greek name for