FIGURE.--Knoop Pom. tab. i. Sickler. Obstgärt. ii. t. 3. Mayer Pom. Franc, tab. iv.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and about the same high; roundish, narrowing towards the apex, and with prominent ribs on the sides like the other Calvilles. Skin, yellowish white, streaked and veined with red on the shaded side; but covered with beautiful deep shining crimson, on the side next the sun, and strewed with numerous white dots. Eye, small and prominent, set in a narrow and wrinkled basin. Stalk, from an inch to an inch and a half long, inserted in a deep and narrow cavity, which is lined with thin russet. Flesh, white tinged with red, crisp and tender, agreeably and pleasantly flavored.
A culinary apple of second-rate quality, ripe during July and August. The flesh is stained with red, particularly on the side next the sun, and partakes somewhat of the flavor of the strawberry. It is valued only for its earliness.
The tree is of small habit of growth, but an excellent bearer. There is great confusion subsisting between this variety and the Passe-pomme Rouge, which Duhamel has described under the name of Calville d’Eté.
IDENTIFICATION.--Knoop Pom. 62. Christ Handb. ed. 1, n. 17. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 118.
SYNONYMES.--Calville Rouge, _Duh. Arb. Fruit._ i. 280. Calleville Rouge, _Schab. Prat._ ii. 88. Calville dit Sanguinole, _Merlet Abregé_. Calville Rouge Longue d’Hyver, _Zink. Pom._ n. 66. Calville Longue d’Hiver, _acc. Christ. Handb._ Calville Royale d’Hiver, _Ibid._ Rother Ekapfel, _Ibid._ Caillot Rosat, _Ibid._ Calville Rouge Couronnée, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Calville Sanguinole, _acc. Knoop_. Calville Rouge Dedans et Dehors, _Ibid._ Calville Musquée, _Ibid._ Sanguinole, _Ibid._ Red Calville, _Lang. Pom._ 134, tab. lxxv. f. 3. Winter Red Calville, _Lind. Guide_, 85. Rode Wintercalville, _Knoop. Pom._ Tab. ix. Aechter rother Wintercalville, _Diel Kernobst._ iii. 1. Rothe Wintercalville, _Sickler Obstgärt._ viii. 95, t. 6. Rother Winterquittenapfel, _Walter_, _acc. Diel_. Rother Winterkalwil, _Baum. Cat._ 1850.
FIGURE.--Knoop Pom. Tab. ix. Duh. Arb. Fr. i. Tab. iii. Poit. et Turp. pl. 87.
Fruit, large, about three inches high, and the same in width; oblong, but not nearly so much ribbed on the sides as the other Calvilles already described. Skin, covered with a bluish bloom, deep shining crimson on the side next the sun, but paler red on the shaded side, and strewed with numerous yellowish dots. Eye, large and closed, with long segments set in a deep warted and wrinkled basin. Stalk, slender, three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a deep cavity, which is lined with thin brown russet. Flesh, greenish white stained with red, not very juicy, tender, vinous, and with a pleasant perfumed flavor.