_Synonyms_: Carthouse, Small Romanite, Gray Romanite, Roman Knight,
Romanite of the West, and Little Romanite.
A handsome cider fruit, from Virginia, which is also a good table fruit
from February to May. A very hardy, vigorous and fruitful tree. Fruit of
medium size, roundish, oblong. Skin very smooth and handsome, richly
streaked with deep red and yellow. Stalk short, deeply inserted. Calyx
in a round, rather deep basin. Flesh yellow, firm, juicy, and rich,
becoming tender and sprightly in the spring. Good.