_Synonyms_: English Rambo, Wells, Cheat, Hogan, Striped Rhode Island
Greening, Cling Tight, English Red Streak, and English Beauty of
Pennsylvania.
This apple, extensively planted in the orchards on the Hudson and west,
so much resembles the Rambo externally that the two are often
confounded, and the outline of the Rambo may be taken as nearly a
_facsimile_ of this. The Dominie is, however, of a livelier color, and
the flavor and season of the two fruits are very distinct, the Rambo
being rather a high-flavored early winter apple, while the Dominie is a
sprightly, juicy, long-keeping winter fruit. Fruit of medium size, flat.
Skin lively greenish yellow in the shade, with stripes and splashes of
bright red in the sun, and pretty large russet specks. Stalk long and
slender, planted in a wide cavity, and inclined to one side. Calyx
small, in a broad basin, moderately sunk. Flesh white, exceedingly
tender and juicy, with a sprightly, pleasant, though not high flavor.
Young wood of a shoot lively light brown, and the trees are very hardy,
and the most rapid growers and prodigious early bearers that we
know--the branches being literally weighted down by the rope-like
clusters of fruit. The Dominie does not appear to be described by any
foreign author. Coxe says that he received it from England, but the
apple he describes and figures does not appear to be ours, and we have
never met with it in any collection here. It is highly probable that the
Dominie is a native fruit. It is excellent from December to April.